City resident can commute to school and back on half a charge
W ith gas prices near an all-time high and environmentalists warning about the future of our ecosystem, one Gulf Breeze resident decided to find a cheaper, more eco-friendly way to get around. She purchased a Segway personal transporter. You might have seen her cruising on the bike path adjacent to Highway 98 in the mornings and afternoons. More...
County School District decides to move forward with construction despite cost
BY PAM BRANNON Gulf Breeze News news@gulfbreezenews.com
The Santa Rosa County School District is moving forward with plans to add a 19,000-square-foot wing of classrooms to Woodlawn Beach Middle School just a week after it realized a stricter fire code would mean a construction cost increase between $356,000 and $400,000. More...
BY JOE CULPEPPER Gulf Breeze News joe@gulfbreezenews.com
The University of West Florida and Andrews Institute of Gulf Breeze have formed a partnership that could be the first step in establishing UWF as a national leader in secondary sports medicine education. UWF announced last Friday the appointment of four Andrews Institute physicians to its faculty as research associates. More...
Candidates Forum II, the second political forum sponsored by the Gulf Breeze Area Chamber of Commerce, is scheduled for 6 p.m., Monday, Oct. 13 at Calvary Chapel, 1140 Harrison Avenue in Gulf Breeze. Floridatown County Park in Pace will be the site of the third 2008 Democratic Political Rally in Santa Rosa County. The event will be from 2 until 4:30 p.m. More...
A group of students from Gulf Breeze spent a busy summer sailing locally and around the country, in addition to holding down near full-time jobs. Combined, the students sailed over eight different classes of boats, winning awards in nearly all of them. Most of the students left for Charleston, S.C. More...
SCREEN PLAY Title: Lakeview Terrace Running time: 106 minutes. Rating: PG-13 Grade: C- Samuel L. Jackson is really good at shouting. That's what the man does best. More...
Three Dolphin miscues, and a questionable personal foul early in the fourth quarter, helped the unbeaten Catholic Crusaders snap their five-game winless streak to their archrivals 17-10 on Homecoming Friday at Dolphin Stadium. More...
Rev. Herb Sadler at Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church shared a message regarding the country's economic crisis in his newsletter last week. "I'm so aware, as are you, of the flood of news about the effort to bail out Wall Street, the end of some financial institutions, the mortgage loan crisis, and related financial news, virtually all bad," Sadler wrote. More...
Christopher Harold "Chris" Smock, 44, died Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. Born Feb. 6, 1964, in Frankfort, Ind., Smock was the son of Margaret Smock Bigham of Gulf Breeze and Harold Smock of Wilmington, N.C. He was general manager of Bigham Cable Construction, a member of Cross Roads Community Church in Simpsonville, S.C., and was active in the Prayer Ministry. More...
Thursday, Oct. 9 Santa Rosa County Commission 9 a.m., County Administrative Center, 6495 Caroline Street, Milton Santa Rosa County Fire Protection Board of Adjustments and Appeals 4 p.m. More...
A friend asked me, "Did you see the article in the newspaper today? Ours are the only Northwest Florida elementary, middle, or high schools that are recognized for being academically superior." My friend is a retiree, as I am, who does not have any children or grandchildren in the Gulf Breeze schools. But, gee, isn't it hard not to attach oneself automatically to success? More...
Mana'olana Chocolates is proud to announce its presence in the Sea Shell Collections Shopping Center in Gulf Breeze. Open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m., Mana'olana provides a wide variety of gourmet chocolates, candies, fudge, gifts, Webkinz and more. More...
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TAX DEED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT CHARLES BODAMER holder of the following Tax Sale Certificate has filed said Tax Certificate for the Tax Deed to be issued thereon. More...
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