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After a year of holding its monthly meetings in Milton, the Tourist Development Council unanimously agreed to move those meetings back to the Tiger Point Community Center beginning in May.

The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners discussed potential financial setbacks that Florida’s new $15 minimum wage could bring to the county.

Face masks in schools have been a hot topic of discussion in hallways, at dinner tables and at nearly every school board public forum over the past year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Parents have mixed feelings about the mask mandate for students.

When Mary Hume Gangl’s dad went off to a training mission in Albuquerque, New Mexico, she had a decision to make.

She would turn 15 while he was gone. Did she want the family celebration to be held before he left or after he came home? She chose to wait.

In the first three months of 2021, Navarre Beach lifeguards have already rescued more people than they did all last year.

Waste Pro started its new pickup schedule and rates in South Santa Rosa County April 5 and Waste Pro Division Manager Rick Chancey said he was very pleased with the smooth transition.

Santa Rosa County officials got the green light Tuesday morning to upgrade the traffic lights at the intersections of U.S. Highway 98 with the Navarre Beach Causeway and State Road 87.

Bed tax numbers for Santa Rosa County increased 28.42% in February over last year, representing the fifth straight increase for the fiscal year beginning in October.

Community reporter Kaitie Meyer hit the beach last Wednesday to talk to strangers about stimulus checks. Finances are typically a private topic of conversation, but many tourists and locals were open to discussing their bank accounts and thousands of dollars appearing in it over the past year.

No one was injured in an early morning collision Monday between a pickup truck and a school bus with one child on it.