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Elsa has been upgraded to a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour. The National Hurricane Center does not have high confidence in her forecast path, which currently takes her into the Gulf of Mexico early next week and then up the western coast of the Peninsula.

This July Fourth will be the first that Florida residents can legally set off fireworks, as long as they don’t light the fuse in a municipality of homeowners association that bans it. Gov. Ron DeSantis passed a bill last year allowing to people to legally set off fireworks on July 4, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

In the past, many Floridians traveled out of state to buy fireworks. Locally, only small items like sparklers and snakes could be sold without a permit prior to HB 140. Local firework sellers offered large selections this year.

Waste Pro Regional Vice President Ralph Mills presented Santa Rosa County with a $275,000 franchise fee Thursday. The fee is presented annually as part of the company’s collections agreement to have the ability to collect solid waste within the County.

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.”