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Recent torrential lanes will likely slightly delay completion of the Navarre Park renovation, the Tourist Development Council learned Thursday morning.

The county has hired a new beach manager, filling a position that was approved in 2020 but put on hold due to the pandemic.

The newly formed group, Preserve Navarre, has developed a survey intended to determine the community’s interest in incorporation.

The former general manager of The Club at Hidden Creek has been charged with theft for items she allegedly stole from the course.

The Santa Rosa Board of County Commissioners designated District 3 Commissioner James Calkins as its liaison to water protection civic groups that formed, in part, to oppose a now shelved proposal to allow more or expanded borrow pit mining in the 27,000-acre East Milton Area Wellfield Protection Overlay District.

You may have noticed Holley-Navarre Fire District firefighters out in the community painting your fire hydrants bright yellow.

A land development code workshop that started at 1 p.m. and lasted until after midnight went on a brief detour early in the meeting to discuss the regulation of manure.

Social media photos of families lined up at an ice cream truck on Navarre Beach Saturday sparked questions about whether the truck was allowed to sell in a publicly owned parking lot.

For the second week in a row, a Santa Rosa Board of County Commissioners meeting was tainted and partially derailed by attacks on County Administrator Dan Schebler.

Members of the Santa Rosa County Zoning Board recommended to deny a variance request to increase the length of a Navarre dock from 300 feet to 406.5 feet at a meeting April 29. The board voted against the proposal in a 6-2 vote. The location of the proposed dock is 9679 Navarre Pkwy.

The dock is for Soundside Hollow, where a code violation has already been issued after a red clay mixture ran off the property and into the Santa Rosa Sound during heavy rains.