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The Santa Rosa Board of County Commissioners designated District 3 Commissioner James Calkins as its liaison to water protection civic groups that formed, in part, to oppose a now shelved proposal to allow more or expanded borrow pit mining in the 27,000-acre East Milton Area Wellfield Protection Overlay District.

You may have noticed Holley-Navarre Fire District firefighters out in the community painting your fire hydrants bright yellow.

A land development code workshop that started at 1 p.m. and lasted until after midnight went on a brief detour early in the meeting to discuss the regulation of manure.

Social media photos of families lined up at an ice cream truck on Navarre Beach Saturday sparked questions about whether the truck was allowed to sell in a publicly owned parking lot.

For the second week in a row, a Santa Rosa Board of County Commissioners meeting was tainted and partially derailed by attacks on County Administrator Dan Schebler.

Members of the Santa Rosa County Zoning Board recommended to deny a variance request to increase the length of a Navarre dock from 300 feet to 406.5 feet at a meeting April 29. The board voted against the proposal in a 6-2 vote. The location of the proposed dock is 9679 Navarre Pkwy.

The dock is for Soundside Hollow, where a code violation has already been issued after a red clay mixture ran off the property and into the Santa Rosa Sound during heavy rains.

The Santa Rosa County Zoning Board recommended to approve two variance requests to reduce the front setback along an arterial road and reduce the side setback to accommodate an existing structure at a meeting on April 29. The variance requests are for a new coffee shop the property owner wants to open. The location of the site is at 9389 Chumuckla Highway,

The City of Pensacola and Blues Angel Music have partnered to bring their annual free concert series back to the Pensacola community for the first time since 2019. Concert spectators are invited to bring coolers and lawn chairs to the Hunter Amphitheater, located at Community Maritime Park, for the 2021 Blues Angel Music’s Blues on the Bay Free Concert Series, which kicks off May 2.

Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) contractors have completed the installation of multiple stay-in-place forms and are currently pouring and leveling concrete on the Pensacola Bay Bridge. Following the completion of the concrete pours on the bridge deck, crews will construct barrier walls designed to create a reinforced, protective wall for motorists traveling over the bridge. Additional work will include the installation of electrical conduit and roadway striping, according to the latest press update.

Opening April 12, 1963, the original wooden Navarre Beach Fishing Pier stood 18 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, was 800 feet long and 14 feet wide.