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AccuWeather forecasters continued to keep a close eye on Tropical Storm Elsa after it was named the fifth storm of the Atlantic hurricane season early Thursday morning. The storm is likely to strengthen into the first hurricane of 2021 in the Atlantic and is predicted to approach the United States next week after it unleashes heavy rain, strong winds and stirs up dangerous seas in the Caribbean islands starting on Friday.

A public hearing has been scheduled to discuss the possible amendment of the Navarre Beach Lease Agreement to allow a recreational vehicle park.

The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners approved a rezoning request to allow a single-family residential neighborhood in Milton at a Commission Special Meeting June 24.

A thin slice of Navarre got nearly 3 inches of rain overnight, leaving some intersections and roadways covered by water.

To the people that spot them, they are mysteries, to others they are hoaxes and many remain unsure.

But what is certain is that Unidentified Flying Objects continue to be reported, with close to 6,000 records of sightings in Florida alone.

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will host a Virtual Project Update for the widening and improvements of State Road (S.R.) 30 (U.S. 98) from Bayshore Road to Portside Drive, in Santa Rosa County.

Help for citizens concerned about neighborhood noise potentially arrived June 22 when commissioners approved a new ordinance that will help the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office enforce nuisance noise.

The ordinance, which passed 3-1, uses a decibel-based standard to enforce infractions rather than law enforcement determining if a noise is “plainly audible.”

After 39 years dedicated to teaching and, 37 of those years spent pioneering the Gulf Breeze High School (GBHS) drama department, Margie Timmons retired from her fulfilling career.

Students from current and years past came together June 27 to surprise Timmons with an evening of performances at the Saenger Theatre in her honor. Actors and actresses, all at some point under the direction of Timmons, performed songs and scenes from old plays they had put on and took Timmons on a trip down memory lane, leaving her with tears in her eyes.

The Santa Rosa County School District has signed a contract on an option to buy land for a new school at the corner of Willard Norris Road and Tanglewood Drive in Milton.

Florida health-care providers are going back in time.

The growing emergence of telehealth, or telemedicine, as a way to deliver health care has been a silver lining during the COVID-19 pandemic.