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Caesi Williamson’s phone lit up with a text bright and early on a weekday morning. A friend was letting her know that her services to capture and relocate a snake were needed.

Two new board members have been selected for the Holley Navarre Water System.

Votes were cast at a June 1 special meeting.

Pensacola Bay Oyster Company received the first round of justice from the Santa Rosa County Circuit Court this week, according to a press release from the company.

On Tuesday at approximately 5:15 p.m., Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the Spokes and Kickstands bar after a reported shooting.

On Wednesday, Board of County Commissioners approved without objection a variance for Feed Lemon LLC to serve alcoholic beverages at a Feed Lemon concert in Milton.

FDLE agents arrested Joseph Sanderson, 67, of Milton, today on 15 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material, in violation of Florida Statute 827.071(5)(a), a third-degree felony. Due to the number of videos/images and the sexual battery of children depicted in the videos, each count qualifies to be enhanced to second-degree felonies based on F.S. 775.0847(2)(a)(b).

A 5-year-old boy visiting from Kentucky with his family died Saturday after apparently slipping from a play structure in the Santa Rosa Sound and drowning.

Another car wash is coming to Navarre and after a year of the project mostly remaining idle, construction started up again last week.

Santa Rosa County District 3 Commissioner James Calkins has a surprise for his webpage on the Board of County Commissioners’ website.

Calkins is the only commissioner whose page is “under construction.” Calkins and District 5 Commissioner Colten Wright were both elected in the same 2020 cycle, but Wright has a complete biographical information page.

After bed tax numbers in April nearly doubled those in 2018-2019, parking lots along Gulf Boulevard are at a premium.

“We are at capacity right now on Navarre Beach,” Tourist Development Director Julie White said. “So, this destination is doing extremely well.”