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PANAMA CITY The Bay County Commission recently agreed to pave more of the county s dirt roads.
The county awarded a contract for a little more than $454,000 to Roberts and Roberts Inc. to pave almost a mile of dirt roads, which includes Wiregrass Boulevard and West Smith Road. Commissioners have put a premium on trying to eliminate runoff from dirt roads that flows into the creeks and streams that lead to the bays.
The project is expected to be completed in 90 days after the contractor gets a notice to proceed. If the project takes longer than 90 days, $1,170 will be deducted from the contract for each day the project runs over.
OUT OF THE PAST: Exploring Old Spanish Trail facts, fictions
By Robert Hurst | Bay County Historical Society | Special to The News Herald
For a long time, I had wondered whether there ever was a Spanish Trail that connected Florida’s St. Augustine with California or Mexico, or even Spain’s other Florida provincial capital of Pensacola.
The Old Spanish Trail held my interest, but I felt it was too large of a project to tackle. That was until, in my investigations of local pioneer trails, I discovered a 1778 “Map of the Road from Pensacola in West Florida to St. Augustine in East Florida.