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As a grieving Kentucky family prepares to bury their 5-year-old son, Navarre residents continue to keep them in their thoughts and prayers. Zaten Gabriel Clark, son of Travis and Christina Clark, died Saturday night after he fell from the play structure at a floating water park and drowned.

Services will be held at Smith Funeral Home in Morgantown, Kentucky, one week to the day that Zaten died. He was pulled from the Santa Rosa Sound by Holley-Navarre Fire District rescuers just before 7:30 p.m., which was less than 20 minutes after they were first notified.

Caesi Williamson’s phone lit up with a text bright and early on a weekday morning. A friend was letting her know that her services to capture and relocate a snake were needed.

Two new board members have been selected for the Holley Navarre Water System.

Votes were cast at a June 1 special meeting.

Pensacola Bay Oyster Company received the first round of justice from the Santa Rosa County Circuit Court this week, according to a press release from the company.

On Tuesday at approximately 5:15 p.m., Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the Spokes and Kickstands bar after a reported shooting.

On Wednesday, Board of County Commissioners approved without objection a variance for Feed Lemon LLC to serve alcoholic beverages at a Feed Lemon concert in Milton.

FDLE agents arrested Joseph Sanderson, 67, of Milton, today on 15 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material, in violation of Florida Statute 827.071(5)(a), a third-degree felony. Due to the number of videos/images and the sexual battery of children depicted in the videos, each count qualifies to be enhanced to second-degree felonies based on F.S. 775.0847(2)(a)(b).

A 5-year-old boy visiting from Kentucky with his family died Saturday after apparently slipping from a play structure in the Santa Rosa Sound and drowning.

Another car wash is coming to Navarre and after a year of the project mostly remaining idle, construction started up again last week.

Santa Rosa County District 3 Commissioner James Calkins has a surprise for his webpage on the Board of County Commissioners’ website.

Calkins is the only commissioner whose page is “under construction.” Calkins and District 5 Commissioner Colten Wright were both elected in the same 2020 cycle, but Wright has a complete biographical information page.