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Membership frustrated with decades of attempts to change the Holley-Navarre Water System’s proxy system for voting stood up to make a change at  a Oct. 27 meeting.

Navarre received between 4 and 6 inches of rain from Halloween night into Monday morning, according to the National Weather Service in Mobile.

Everyone who comes before the Santa Rosa County Zoning Board is a special case, at least to those applying for exceptions from the rules governing the use of their property.

Many Santa Rosa County offices are up for election in 2016. In fact, all constitutional offices will be up for election. All of the current constitutional officers will be running for re-election, with the exception of Sheriff Wendell Hall, who has chosen not to run again.

Pet Nation held its annual Halloween event for dogs on Oct. 30 with trick-or-treating for the canines dressed in costumes.  “We usually get between 40-50 dogs for the event, but this year we definitely broke the record with 100 dogs,” owner Holly Elassaad said.  The popular costumes this year were sports-related; football, baseball and referees.

Something extraordinarily special happens when you bring children into an assisted living community to socialize with the residents.  It is difficult to tell who benefits the most, the children or the seniors.

Whitmire Cemetery is the resting place for many respectable, Pensacola families and their loved ones and is located near Olive Baptist Church. According to Jacquelyn Wilson, a local historian of the area and Archivist/Historian for the University of West Florida Historic Trust, “Whitmire cemetery is a public cemetery on Whitmire Road in the Ferry Pass area of Pensacola. This cemetery was set up in the early 1900s by a local family so that there would be a community burial ground.”

If you’ve ever gone trick-or-treating, you have also probably had your parents inspect your Halloween candy. It was the time you dreaded as a kid during Halloween. It was the perfect opportunity for your parents, under the guise of safety, to pick out or “confiscate” their favorite candy bar from your sugary haul; but of course, it was for your safety. Good parents have to be safe, right? What few parents actually realize, however, is that poisoned/tampered Halloween candy is an urban legend; mostly propagated by one man, Ronald Clark O’ Bryan, the man who killed Halloween.

As Halloween approaches, Navarre Press would like to share with you some of the best local haunts and their stories.  NOTE: Not all of these locations are open to the public. Trespassing on private grounds is a crime punishable by law. Furthermore, vandalism of any kind is also a crime. Destroying or defacing a cemetery is considered a felony, and conviction of such crimes can carry fines in the range of $5000 and/or five years in jail. Before visiting any of these sites, check to make sure they are open to the public. If they are not, obtain permission and notify the authorities before visiting.

In modern times, serial killers have been a popular focus for psychological fascination, public terror, and (most often) crime-related television shows. Sadly, the innermost demons of human nature which motivate these kinds of murderous acts have no apparent end in sight. While Florida isn’t especially known for such killers, Milton is able to claim Martha J. Seabrook Beck, aka one of the “Lonely Hearts Killers,” as one of its own natives.