Holley-Navarre Fire District employees, including Chief Ron Norton, will get a 5-percent pay raise beginning Oct. 1.

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 A 28-year-old Gulf Breeze woman was arrested on three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for giving adolescent kids alcohol on three different occasions.

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 Local leaders’ failure to protect Eglin Air Force Base is at least partially to blame for the area’s losing 48 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters — and the 2,500 jobs and $615-million economic impact they were expected to bring with them to Northwest Florida, Santa Rosa County Commissioner Don Salter said Monday.

“I think this loss of those aircraft shows the importance of protecting your bases and understanding the value of protecting your fence lines like we try to do at Whiting Field,” Salter said.

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It’s a membership Valerie Nessel didn’t ask for, a club to which she didn’t want to belong.

But now that she’s a member, she’s doing everything she can to support the cause.

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