News Archive

The promised reduction to the Garcon Point Bridge tolls still has no effective date.

Representatives from the Florida Department of Transportation and Governor Ron DeSantis’s office reported that while work is still happening, there is no current update.

A website and petition campaign called Open Our Museum has been organized by a group of local citizens and civic leaders working together to urge the U.S. Navy and the Department of Defense (DoD) to reestablish the public access waiver to NAS Pensacola so all citizens are allowed to visit the National Naval Aviation Museum (NNAM) and the base’s other historic attractions.

One family continues to approach the Board of County Commissioners regarding the alternative subdivision provision.

The Fowlers have been attending commissioner meetings since November, asking the board to delete the provision, and now they have a name to put to their perceived threat—Jubilee.

Freshwater fisheries researchers and managers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) successfully released 3,300 hatchery-raised shoal bass fingerlings (young fish) into the Chipola River in May.

Guy Thompson, the former Mayor of Milton, was released from the federal prison he was staying in two years before his set release date.

On January 17, 2020, Thompson was sentenced to 51 months in prison for embezzling over $650,000 from the United Way of Santa Rosa County, which he ran for 39 years. The sentencing came after the FBI and IRS investigated Thompson’s finances for the years of 2011-2018.

The Santa Rosa County School District is looking at putting in two new schools in the East Milton area. The district sought a positive recommendation from the zoning board on May 12 regarding the possibility of turning a portion of land in the 5400 block of SA Jones Road into both a K-8 school and a high school.

Five years after her murder, the family of 38-year-old Anna Louise Brown recalls the way she enriched their lives.

Her family has never stopped missing her, and the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office has not given up hope that they will catch the killer, even after all this time.

A public hearing is set to be approved to establish the Jubilee Community Development District in Pace. The Board of County Commissioners discussed establishing the district at the Committee Meeting on Monday, May 9.

As the price of homes increase, so do the taxes that go with their sales. Documentary (or doc) stamp taxes have not technically gone up, but due to the increase in prices on homes and other properties, citizens are paying more.

Editor’s Note: We will be meeting with Rep. Matt Gaetz, who represents the 1st District of Florida, on a regular basis to ask him questions about his representation of our district in Congress and initiatives that he is working on to the benefit of our district and our country.

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