2019-07-11 E-Edition

Here come the Blues!

Annual Pensacola Beach Air show is Friday and Saturday, if weather allows

Anxious air show fans were keeping their eyes on the weather ahead of the Santa Rosa Island Authority’s annual Pensacola Beach Air Show, with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels headlining, on Friday, July 12, and Saturday, July 13. The forecasters were unable to predict where a low pressure system would dump rain or even how much, so plans were still […]

City wants 2-3 walkovers for pedestrians




Gulf Breeze City Council members are looking at ways to facilitate the movement of cars, bicycles, carts and pedestrians around the city in a safer and more efficient manner. Several ideas were brought up for discussion at the July 1 Council meeting. At the recent City Council retreat, Councilman Todd Torgersen first proposed a multi-modal overpass for Highway 98 and […]

Two whales die on local beaches

Navarre Beach Fire and Rescue examine the whale that was found dead on Navarre Beach Monday. On Tuesday, a rare deep water whale was found on a beach in the Gulf Islands National Seashore.

County plans to stop discharging effluent into Santa Rosa Sound




One county project that has taken 20-plus years to bring to fruition became a reality Monday. County Engineer Roger Blaylock presented Santa Rosa County commissioners with a proposed agreement offered by Eglin Air Force Base to lease a portion of Air Force property near Navarre Beach to receive the effluent from the Navarre Beach Waste Water Treatment Plant. It is […]

Surgery was in the nick of time to avoid cancer




There’s a lot more upside than downside, as far as Gulf Breeze resident Doug Janousek is concerned. On June 7, the former newspaper writer, editor, personal chef and cookbook author underwent a pancreatectomy at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa. The procedure involved removing his pancreas, spleen, gall bladder, common bile duct, the first section of his small intestine and about […]

Santa Rosa likely to approve recycling agreement with ECUA




Recycling will probably continue through an agreement with ECUA for the next two years in Santa Rosa County. On July 8, county commissioners reviewed the latest contract offer from ECUA, which would cost the county more than $340,000 a year for the next two years. Commissioner Bob Cole, who has been against paying any other agency like ECUA to simply […]

Calendar of Meetings

Thursday, July 11 Santa Rosa County Commission regular meeting 9 a.m., 6495 Caroline Street, Milton Santa Rosa County School Board meeting 9 a.m., 5086 Canal Street, Milton Santa Rosa County Zoning Board meeting 6 p.m., 6495 Caroline Street, Milton Friday, July 12 Gulf Breeze Optimist Club 7 a.m., 1110 Gulf Breeze Parkway, Gulf Breeze Monday, July 15 City of Gulf […]

FLASHBACKS

July 11

1 Year ago this week – 2018 The Pensacola Bay Bridge replacement project reached a construction milestone as crews drove the final concrete piling for the new eastbound (Pensacola to Gulf Breeze) bridge. The 1,062 piles for the eastbound bridge range in length from 120 to 210 feet and weigh as much as 190,000 pounds. Crews have driven the piles […]

Thanks to City council

Speaking on behalf of Soundview Trail residents, children presented Gulf Breeze Mayor Cherry Fitch a plaque expressing appreciation for work completed by the City in the neighborhood recently. Pictured are (from left) Arden Poole, Mayor Fitch, Owen Bunting, Peyton Bunting and Ian Bunting.