UPDATE:

Power has been restored and all clinical operations have resumed at Santa Rosa Medical Center (SRMC) as of 6:25 p.m. on June 29. The temperatures in the building are back to normal.

While the hospital was operating on back-up power with limited air temperature management, nine patients were transferred to other facilities.

The remaining patients are continuing to receive medical care and remain stable.

Pensacola’s hometown heroes will be front and center at the 2023 Pensacola Beach Air Show, hosted by the Santa Rosa Island Authority (SRIA), July 5-8, 2023. The elite U.S. Navy Blue Angels will headline all events which culminate on Saturday, July 8, with the official Air Show.

Santa Rosa County commissioner James Calkins, who is expected to seek election to a second term next year, again created controversy at last week’s commission meetings by proposing resolutions addressing hot-button political issues not related to the county’s business.

Two nonprofit organizations are pursuing Jack Wetherell’s vision when he opened the Panhandle Butterfly House in 1997 in Navarre, one the nonprofit sponsor of the program, the other founded in 2021 by a former volunteer and board president of the original Panhandle Butterfly House board.

Butterflies in Motion, Inc. – formerly known as Panhandle Butterfly House and Nature Center, Inc. – uses a mobile butterfly habitat to deliver free educational programs across northern Florida between late spring and the end of the Monarch butterfly migration in October. In just its second season, it already has earned awards for environmental education from the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs and the six-state Deep South Regional Garden Club; it also has received a conservation education award from National Garden Clubs Inc.

Area residents learned how bees, birds and butterflies play a critical role in agriculture during Keep Santa Rosa Beautiful’s ‘Pollination Celebration’ Saturday at the Panhandle Butterfly House & Nature Center.

The Santa Rosa County Commission on Thursday agreed it did not support pornography in schools, but stopped short of considering a resolution that might be seen as meddling in the school district’s business.