A message from Gulf Breeze Mayor Cherry Fitch

Gulf Breeze Hospital has treated and transported two COVID-19 positive patients with no community spread. Today, Gulf Breeze was additionally notified of its first positive case of a winter visitor who recently traveled out of state. Last week the City declared a State of Emergency, activating the City’s Pandemic Plan in coordination with Santa Rosa County. Friday, I contacted all […]

Message from Gulf Breeze Mayor Cherry Fitch

Gulf Breeze Hospital treated and transported two COVID-19 positive patients with no community spread. Today, Gulf Breeze was additionally notified of its first positive case of a winter visitor who recently traveled out of state. Last week, the City declared a State of Emergency, activating the City’s Pandemic Plan in coordination with Santa Rosa County. Friday, I contacted all Gulf […]

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COVID-19 closes beach, schools, stores

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Santa Rosa County Commissioners held a press conference Thursday, March 19. The message was broadcast live online and through TV stations that Navarre Beach would not be closed — until it was — Friday, March 20, when the county collectively changed its mind. Escambia County also held a press conference Thursday, March 19, saying there was no need to close […]

Doctor sees 40 patients a day — from home

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As Maggie Thorp is upstairs at her Gulf Breeze home attending virtual divinity classes at Duke University, her husband, James Thorp, M.D., is downstairs in his office, seeing a patient in Carbondale, Ill. Yes, that’s right, he is seeing a high risk maternity patient thousands of miles away using his computer, camera and microphone. In Carbondale, a young patient and […]

Epilepsy awareness

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Taylor Holbrook, 11, and a student at Gulf Breeze Elementary School, was a special guest at the March 16 Gulf Breeze City Council meeting. Gulf Breeze Mayor Cherry Fitch welcomed Taylor and her mother, Colette Clark, and presented a proclamation in honor of Purple Day, a global effort dedicated to promoting epilepsy awareness around the world.

School board OKs Tiger Point school site purchase

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The Santa Rosa County School Board took the next move in purchasing 45 acres of the Tiger Point Golf Course at its last meeting. The vote was to have the administration move ahead with the purchase, as long as a clear title was obtained before closing. The school district is purchasing the property “as a future possible school site,” as […]

Schools grapple with evolving situation

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As of Tuesday, March 24, it is planned that all K-12 public and private students in the state will be back in classrooms April 15, according to Governor Ron DeSantis. The Santa Rosa County School District website shows that the plan is, indeed, to be back in regular session for all public schools on April 15. On Monday, March 23, […]