Santa Rosa County Fair supporters can lease 25 acres needed for its “Agri-Plex” project from the county — if they present an acceptable master plan in 90 days.

“I don’t think anybody up here’s against it,” said Santa Rosa County Commissioner Don Salter at the commission’s Sept. 7 meeting. “I just don’t think we can develop that property the way it should be without developing a master plan and sticking to it.“

The Santa Rosa County Fair Association Inc., a nonprofit group created in 1991 to operate the fair, has asked for a 10-year lease for 25 acres north of East Milton Park on which it proposes to build a multiuse staging area and midway. In exchange, the association would spend at least $10,000 for capital improvements each year of the lease agreement.

For more on this story, check out the Sept. 16 edition of the Navarre Press or subscribe online.

Santa Rosa County will scrap seven disabled workers’ jobs at the end of 2010.

The Arc Santa Rosa, a nonprofit agency serving developmentally disabled clients, has provided employees for the county’s landfill and recycling center since 1990. Originally, workers sorted recyclable materials at the landfill. But their duties changed as the operation grew.

“It’s been a good agreement for these many years,” County Administrator Hunter Walker told commissioners Sept. 7, adding that the recycling center has supported itself and even made money in the past. “There’s just so much product (to be recycled) we had to change the way we use our Arc people.”

For more on this story, check out the Sept. 16 edition of the Navarre Press or subscribe online.

Just days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania, a local group of moms knew they had to do something – anything – to honor their heroes close to home.

Read more...

 Keeping bedbugs from biting may be harder than you think.

Read more...

Though it’s true nearly half of today’s marriages end in divorce, one company is banking on couples who are apt to believe they’ll end up on the wrong side of those statistics.

Read more...

Roy Jones Jr. and Danny Santiago will fight Oct. 7 at the Pensacola Civic Center.

Jones, 41, a Pensacola native, hopes to extend his hall-of-fame-worthy career against Santiago, 37, a gym owner from Ocala who was among the boxers featured in the short-lived reality show “The Contender,” which aired on ESPN in 2007.

Neither fighter pretends the bout to fill a vacant regional cruiserweight title is more than an opportunity to keep boxing.

With a win, Santiago could earn a chance to fight for a cruiserweight title.

For more on this story, check out the Sept. 16 edition of the Navarre Press or subscribe online.