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Adams Sanitation, which has 9,000 customers in the north end of Santa Rosa County, has submitted a permit to provide garbage pickup in the south end of the county.

The permit, filed Wednesday, was submitted with a letter challenging the county’s “exclusive franchise” agreement with Waste Pro. According to the letter, written by Adams’ legal representative Nathan Boyles, the ordinance assuring franchise exclusivity was adopted by the county June 9, 2011.

In a whirlwind of yelling, confusion and he-said-she-said during a Board of County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, District 3 Commissioner James Calkins voted to withhold funding from School Resource Officers in Santa Rosa County even though he verbally supported them five times during the same meeting.

More than a dozen members attended the Holley Navarre Water System’s monthly meeting June 15, with many asking for more transparency from the board.

Gone are the signs indicating a merge to one lane that slowed traffic to a crawl at times going across the Pensacola Bay Bridge over the last three weeks.

Despite weather and rough seas that almost sent them home early, a shark fishing guide and his Texas clients hauled in a 9-foot, 2-inch bull shark late Tuesday night.

The drawn out, hotly debated discussion of creating a new Santa Rosa County land development code (LDC) is trudging forward.

Navarre Beach Fire Rescue Chief Danny Fureigh has no way of predicting the number of days this year when green flags will fly on local beaches. But he knows the number will be low – very low.

A 43-year-old Navarre man faces multiple felony charges after beating his girlfriend, threatening her with a machete and keeping her phone so she couldn’t call for help.

Holidu, the search engine for vacation rentals, has released a list of the top must-visit beaches in Florida this summer. Not surprisingly, Navarre was on this list.

All of the top beaches were located along the Gulf of Mexico, with five of Florida’s state parks making the list, too.

Here are the top 10:

On April 29, 2021, a complaint was received by the human resources department from a county employee in reference to an improper business relationship between county staff and the waste hauler franchisee. To investigate this allegation, the county utilized an independent third party. Santa Rosa County has received the report from the independent investigator, which found no evidence of improper dealings between county staff and the waste hauler franchisee.