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The grant finalists for IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area’s annual meeting have been announced.

The philanthropic women’s organization has selected 20 nonprofit organizations for 2026. According to IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area, 13 of the 20 finalists will receive a grant of $101,000 during the annual meeting. The meeting will be held Oct. 11.

On Tuesday, Sept. 8, at approximately 8:30 a.m., a storage tank on Hurlburt Field released fuel that found its way to a secondary containment system. While most of the fuel was recovered and placed into appropriate storage, around 10 to 25 gallons of residual fuel was found to have been released from the secondary containment into the base’s stormwater systems going toward Santa Rosa Sound.

This secondary fuel leak took place Sept. 10.

The First District Court of Appeal handed down a decision in the case of Romi White v. Holley-Navarre Water System on Thursday, Sept. 3.

According to the court document, the Circuit Court for Santa Rosa County’s decision, which was in favor of HNWS, was upheld. The official finding of the First District Court of Appeal was per curiam affirmed.

A group of citizens saw a need in their community and decided to do something about it.

The Navarre Urbanists, a citizens group founded last year to promote better infrastructure around Navarre, recently organized a trash cleanup in the ditch between Days Inn and the parking lot around Pizza Hut.

Florida residents will be receiving tax relief on firearms, ammunition and a range of hunting, fishing and camping supplies September through Dec. 31.

On Monday, Sept. 14, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the start of Florida’s Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday. This is the second year of the tax holiday.

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLSHMV) is reporting a data breach of the state’s Driver and Vehicle Information Database, also known as DAVID.

The department learned of the breach Sept. 4. According to the department, the breach was contained quickly and originated from a Plant City Police Department user.

Dozens of first responders and citizens gathered at the towers of Summerwind Condominiums Friday morning, Sept. 11, for the annual 9/11 Stair Climb in remembrance of the first responders who died during the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Each September serves as National Suicide Prevention Month, a time to bring awareness to mental health issues and the resources that could save people’s lives.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide was responsible for 48,824 deaths in 2024, the most recent year the agency has statistics for. While this amounts to a little over 1.5 percent of the total deaths across the U.S., CDC stats show a profound increase in the suicide rate per 100,000 from 2001 to 2024. Suicide tragically touches everyone, including children.

Prairie dogs are usually found in grasslands in America’s Great Plains region. Recently, one was found at the Walmart Supercenter in Navarre.

Wendell Hall had been sheriff of Santa Rosa County for about eight months when he walked out of a hotel breakfast in Ocala and found a crowd of Florida sheriffs standing around a television.

A jet had hit one of the World Trade Center towers, someone told him. Nobody knew if it was an accident. Hall was still watching when the second plane hit.