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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.

Community Life Church is looking to expand its parking lot to accommodate its growing congregation.

The Florida Department of Transportation is wrapping up road work on Highway 87 S from U.S. 98 to Vonnie Tolbert Road.

Navarre High’s unified basketball team claimed its first ever state championship at the Special Olympics last month.


The Raider team competed at Disney’s Wide World of Sports in Orlando and finished on top a year after being a runner-up.

At Navarre Beach Fire Rescue District’s May meeting, the fire commission reviewed expense items which still needed to be paid. These included a payment for a debt on the district’s fire engine and apparatus repairs.

Midway Water System reported a water main break along Highway 98 Wednesday, June 3. As a result of the break, the system has issued a Precautionary Boil Water Notice.

Lawmakers on Tuesday approved a sweeping tax cut for homestead property owners pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, sending it to the November ballot.

The measure increases the existing $50,000 exemption for homestead properties to $150,000 starting in 2027, and it increases to $250,000 in 2028. The exemption, though, doesn’t apply to school taxes, after lawmakers changed DeSantis’ plan Monday to protect districts from drastic cuts.

One of Navarre girls basketball coach Abby Fogg’s best moments of the summer is coaching the youth camp the Raiders put on each year.