Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has a proposed 91.3 billion budget that would be the largest in state history. The budget proposal includes 21.7 billion dollars for the main public-school funding formula, known as the Florida Education Finance Program, with an increase of $224 in per-student funding – No tuition or fee increases for students at…… MORE
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CINCO BAYOU NAMED TREE CITY
The Town of Cinco Bayou has been named as a 2018 Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation. The town achieved the recognition by meeting the program’s four requirements of having a tree board or department, a tree-care ordinance, an annual community forestry budget of at least $2 per capita and an Arbor Day…… MORE
PENSACOLA GREYHOUND RACING ENDS
The Pensacola Greyhound Track & Poker Room has announced they are ending live greyhound racing. Last November, Florida voters passed a Constitutional Amendment that will phase out live greyhound races statewide by 2021, so Pensacola track owner, PCI Gaming, has decided not to resume live races. The track’s poker room, simulcast wagering and food and…… MORE
NEW GULF BREEZE MAYOR
The Gulf Breeze City Council has voted for Mayor Pro-Tem Cherry Fitch to fill the mayoral seat vacated by the resignation of former Mayor David Landfair two weeks ago. Councilman Tom Naile was voted Mayor Pro-Tem. The mayor’s seat was left vacant after Landfair’s sudden resignation on January 18th, just over a month after he…… MORE
COMMON CORE GONE
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed an executive order to eliminate Common Core in Florida schools. The Governor has directed Florida’s education commissioner Richard Corcoran to create a new and improved set of educational standards to replace the current ones. Common Core was started in 2009 and was adopted by Florida and later revised as…… MORE
NAVY LAND SWAP COMPLETED
The U.S. Navy and Escambia County have finalized the land swap they have been negotiating for the past several years. Naval Air Station Whiting Field will now have a new, 600-acre outlying landing field in Jay that will be used for helicopter training. In exchange, Escambia County gets the 636-acre property on nine mile road…… MORE
DRIVER IN FATAL BOAT CRASH FOUND DEAD
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office says the man on trial for a deadly boat crash in 2016 has been found dead. Judsen Cunningham was found at his home around 6:30 a.m. yesterday and investigators say he appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Cunningham was on trial for the boat crash that killed…… MORE
MISSING MILTON TEENAGER FOUND
The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office says a missing 15-year-old girl from Milton has been found and the 24-year-old man they believed she was with when she disappeared, arrested. Aerin Waldroup was reported missing Monday, and was believed to have been with 24-year-old Larry Lewis Powers. The Sheriff’s Office said Waldroup was located and Powers…… MORE
Wallet hub ranks Orlando, Florida as #1 overall best place to get married in the US
Wallehub just put together a list of the top places in America to get married and believe it or not Orlando clocked in on the list at #1! Vegas was 2. To identify the best and worst cities in which to tie the knot, WalletHub compared 182 cities — including the 150 most populated U.S.…… MORE
WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER ARRESTED AGAIN
An English teacher at Washington High School has been arrested again. The Escambia County Sheriff’s Department said Mark Lua was arrested yesterday, charged with sexual assault of a victim of a 16 or 17-years-old, and public order crimes by using a two-way communication device. His bond is set at $125,000. Just over a week ago,…… MORE
