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As generations of students move through Santa Rosa County, the school buildings age.

It can get to a point where it is more cost-effective for the county to start all over on a building than to renovate.

The Santa Rosa County School District has requested a conditional use permit to build a K-8 school on a portion of a 130-acre parcel at the corner of Tanglewood Drive and Willard Norris Drive in Milton.

The parcel, which the district does not yet own, is surrounded by residential property and zoned for residential development.

When Gaby Austin got a tip that U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz would be at Stripes Pub and Grill Wednesday, she knew she had to go.

Austin, a member of Escambia Federated Republican Women, said that meeting Gaetz was a dream of hers. She trusts him to help lead the country in the right direction and, as a legal immigrant, appreciates his position on illegal immigration.

When Jeremy Wheatman died sometime before 4:49 Sunday afternoon, it was fitting that his pastor was one of the first Navarre people to hear the news. John Kerns, pastor of Navarre Beachside Church, holds regular services at Navarre Beach, where Jeremy frequently hung out.

Jeremy, who was homeless, would listen from the fringes to the sermon.