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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.

Jay and Navarre are postseason bound in volleyball.

The Royals are the No. 1 seed in Rural Region 1 while the Raiders are the eighth seed in Region 1-6A.

Tia McHugh has been teaching for 17 years and has loved every minute of it.

A second-grade teacher at East Bay K-8 in Navarre, McHugh was recently named teacher of the year by her colleagues. The news came Sept. 11.

Antenney Hemingway didn’t want to let an opportunity pass him by. So he applied for the head boys track and field coach position and was hired in April.

The Betty J. Pullum YMCA in Navarre continues to expand.

YMCA of Northwest Florida, the owner of the Pullum YMCA, has introduced plans to build an “airnasium” on the south side of the existing recreation center.

With early voting starting Oct. 19, citizens are beginning to look at who they will want to vote for.

One option for voters in State House District 2 is Johnny Austin Thompson.

Pirates on the Panhandle, a social group that organizes fundraisers for local charities and nonprofits, recently set their sights on Soundside High School’s exceptional student education (ESE) student-athletes.

Wednesday, Oct. 7, members of the social group were joined by Soundside High faculty and students for a check presentation. The check, worth $7,500, was presented to the school to support the school’s unified sports program and its Special Olympics activities.

A 69-year-old Navarre man died following a traffic crash Oct. 15 around 2:11 p.m. on I-110 in Escambia County.

The Santa Rosa County Library System will resume operations at select locations on Monday, October 19, following temporary closures caused by the recent hurricane.