2021-05-27 E-Edition

Best in Show

Art in the Breeze @ The Center, the first-in-memory art show exhibited at the Gulf Breeze Community Center, ended May 23 after 10 days. The show, sponsored by Gulf Breeze Arts, Inc. was an opportunity for local artists to showcase their work after the Gulf Breeze Celebrates the Arts show was canceled in 2020 and 2021. The group awarded the […]

County needs more inspectors in housing boom




Keeping up with the inspections needed for home improvements, new home building, and commercial growth in Santa Rosa County is getting to be an impossible task. Last week at the county planning work session, County Commissioner Sam Parker asked the new supervisor of the Building Inspection Department to bring commissioners a report soon on how many new inspectors they need […]

City Manager Sam Abell is Rotary’s Citizen of the Year




Citing her strong community leadership in a variety of situations and during multiple circumstances, Rotary District Governor nominee designate, area governor and past president of Gulf Breeze Rotary Club Kerry Anne Schultz, along with Guy Gascard, director of vocational services for the local club, announced Gulf Breeze City Manager Samantha Abell as the Gulf Breeze Rotary Club’s Citizen of the […]

No limits on graduation guests




Michelle Hardman of Gulf Breeze used her three minutes during public forum at the last school board meeting to help a lot of people with graduates from Gulf Breeze High– as well as all the other schools in the county. She questioned why there was such a low limit on tickets per student for Gulf Breeze High graduation since the […]

Astronomy gear will let students see the stars




Astronomy Night should be coming to a school near you this Fall. Santa Rosa County School Board was informed at the last meeting that some federal funding to the school district has provided opportunity to give each school some astronomy supplies for this next school year to help with Astronomy Nights. Dr. Karen Barber said she was very excited about […]

Mackey, Mateer are National Merit Scholars

(Evanston, Illinois) National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC®) announced this year’s National Merit $2500 Scholarship winners. The 2,500 Merit Scholar designees were chosen from a talent pool of some 16,000 outstanding finalists in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program. The two local winners are Maren A. Mackey of Gulf Breeze, who is graduating from Gulf Breeze High School and plans to […]

FINRA bars Simmons Jr.

FINRA barred former LPL Financial LLC broker John Edgar Simmons Jr. from the securities industry for refusing to cooperate with a FINRA investigation. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, is a self-regulatory organization that oversees and regulates the actions of its members. Members of FINRA include exchange markets and brokerage firms. This private corporation used to be known as […]

Groping case closed


Due to inconclusive evidence, investigators declined to pursue charges against a man accused of groping a young woman at a local nail salon. The incident was reported Tuesday, April 27, at 8 p.m. after the 18-year-old woman had an appointment for a manicure at The Nail Lounge. She told Gulf Breeze Police that the nail technician, a 27-year-old male, massaged […]

Former law enforcement officer sentenced

State Attorney Ginger Bowden Madden announces that pursuant to a plea agreement, Circuit Court Judge John Simon in Santa Rosa County sentenced Jeffrey Scot Perkins to serve 25 years in prison to be followed by probation for the remainder of his natural life for two counts of Lewd or Lascivious Molestation Perkins was arrested on the charges after two minor […]