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Santa Rosa County School District has a few new leaders, ready to serve the students, the staff and the community.

“This is the most important job that I believe I as a superintendent have is to identify, recruit and retain great leaders for our school district,” Barber said. “And these leaders are going to help our employees, our teacher, our students to be successful, and so it just brings great pleasure to me.”

Earlier this month, VFW All-State Commander John Dixon saw a need and reached out to the Christian Life Church Service Team and the US Military Vets Motorcycle Club. Together, with VFW Post 4833 footing the bill, 15 volunteers spent a chilly morning making sure that one who served our nation well was served by the community he fought to protect.

A 74-year-old woman who sped past a Florida Highway Patrol trooper on U.S. Highway 90 told deputies she was heading home, even though it was in the opposite direction.

After passing one trooper, she came up on a second and passed that one was well.

FDOT’s winter weather plan has been developed to keep Florida’s highway system safe and operational in all types of weather conditions.

“The trouble I am having is not in finding someone to do it – I’ll do, it’s finding who to ask permission to do it.”

It is with great sadness that our family is saying goodbye to our loved one, James Ralph Fletcher, age 64, who passed from this world to be with our Lord on Wednesday, January 5, 2022, after a short illness.

Of the 11 puppies that Copper, Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office star bloodhound gave birth to Oct. 28, just two have not been claimed. e, Nassau, Jackson, Bay, Hardee and Brevard counties each accepted a puppy from the SRSO. Jacksonville Police Department took one and the SRSO kept one to train.

County staff recommended that Santa Rosa dismiss part of their reserves since “staff estimates company construction over the next 2-3 years will utilize only 100,000 gallons per day of capacity.”

“I was going to step down from the zoning board because of the fact that you’re not really making friends when you’re on the zoning board. The way I look at it: I can’t step down from it and say, ‘I’m going to go for a job where I’m going to make everyone happy.’”

Torrie Weber and Alicia McBride zoom around the rink at Weber’s Skate World in Milton on the Friday afternoon ahead of the Emerald Coast Inline Challenge. Weber and McBride are teammates on the What’s Up Dock Racing inline skating team and have been close for nearly a decade thanks to a friendship that has been forged through the sport.