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The Santa Rosa County Zoning Board denied a zoning request in a 5-3 vote to allow an industrial complex in Milton at a meeting Aug 12.

The 36^th Annual Navarre Mardi Gras Parade is on the calendar for Feb. 19, pending Tuesday’s approval by the Board of County Commissioners.

The parade, which was cancelled this year due to concerns about crowding during the ongoing pandemic, draws about 40,000 spectators, according to the letter submitted to the BOCC with the application.

With the South Santa Rosa Eglin effluent discharge and beneficial reuse project underway, questions regarding the Holley-Navarre Water System’s transparency have surfaced among the Board of County Commissioners.

Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties had a positivity rate last week higher than all but three other Florida counties.

Of the COVID tests issued, 35.2% were positive from Aug. 14 to Aug. 20 in these two counties. Three other counties – Hamilton, Hardee and Union – had higher rates. Those counties have a total population of less than 60,000 – one third that of Santa Rosa’s population.

The Santa Rosa County Zoning Board voted to approve a request to allow the construction of a water well at the 4000 and 4004 Block of Bell Lane in Pace in a 7-1 vote.

One day after a Naval helicopter crash that seriously injured an instructor and student, clean up was underway at the location of the mishap.

After hundreds of man-hours put into rewriting the Santa Rosa Land Development Code, the Board of County Commissioners voted to approve the code as written, which does not include one key aspect that residents have pushed for.

A record amount of bed tax dollars was collected in June, with the figure topping $860,000.

A Milton women and three children were injured Thursday afternoon when she swerved to avoid someone who cut her off and lost control of her minivan.

The vehicle rolled several times in the median, seriously injuring two of the children. The driver and one of the other children sustained minor injuries. The accident happened at about 5 p.m. near mile marker 25, according to the Florida HIghway Patrol media release.

A Milton woman driving an Okaloosa County School bus Wednesday was injured when an 18-year-old girl rear-ended the bus on U.S. Highway 90. The teen, who was from DeFuniak Springs, did not survive the collision.