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A Santa Rosa County jury has awarded a $37,495,930 verdict to 28 plaintiffs affected by the 2021 Midway water crisis. Represented by Morgan & Morgan attorneys Mitchell Schermer, Benjamin Webster, Evin Dyess Childs, and Alexia Nyiri, the plaintiffs rejected pre-trial settlement offers, resulting in the multi-million-dollar verdict. In the Spring of 2021, a homeowner in […]

58 votes and .2 percent of the vote.

That is all that separates Kerry Smith from Jeff Ates in the Santa Rosa County Commission District 2 seat.

That .2 per cent of the vote is significant as an automatic recount is triggered when vote-getters are not separated by more than .5 percent of the vote.

Former Navarre Raider Rachel Leggett and the Troy Trojans are headed to the championship game of the Sun Belt tournament.


Troy punched its ticket with an 83-73 win on Sunday over Arkansas State, last year’s champ, and will play James Madison at 1 p.m. Monday at the Pensacola Bay Center.

The University of West Florida is known for its trails as well as its academics.

Much of the trails traverse through longleaf pine forests. The plant, which once spread over 90 million acres across America, is famously fire-resistant and relies on fires to clear out dead underbrush to make room for its seedlings.

The Pensacola Blue Wahoos will play a game at Birmingham’s Rickwood Field on May 27.

The University of West Florida men’s basketball team is headed to the Gulf South Conference championship after a 79-72 win over Lee in the semifinal round on Thursday night at the UWF Fieldhouse.

Fourteen students from Holley Navarre Middle School and one student from Navarre High School are advancing to the State Science and Engineering Fair.

The 15 students competed in the 71st West Florida Regional Science Fair at the University of West Florida. According to Santa Rosa County District Schools, this year’s fair featured 56 projects, 60 student participants, six schools across two counties and more than $3,500 in awards.

Drivers in Santa Rosa County will encounter traffic disruptions on the following state roads as crews perform construction and maintenance activities.

Navarre’s girls lacrosse is ranked among the top eight in Region 1-2A in the first set of FHSAA regional rankings.


The Raiders are seventh in the region after a 7-1 start to their season.

Navarre’s boys lacrosse team is ranked second in Region 1-2A in the first set of FHSAA regional rankings. The Raiders are the fourth-ranked team in the state in the classification.