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Months after rumors of a new Publix coming to Navarre first leaked out, county officials say a 48,000-square-foot store is on its way.

The Coast Guard and multiple good Samaritan vessels rescued six people from a capsized commercial vessel Tuesday and are searching for more 8 miles south of Port Fourchon.

The NAS Pensacola and the NAS Whiting Field community, home to Naval Station Pensacola and Naval Air Station Whiting Field, is one of five across the country named to the 2021 Class of Great American Defense Communities, the Association of Defense Communities (ADC) announced in conjunction with USAA, the program’s official sponsor.

The new Ascension Sacred Heart ER in Navarre held a ribbon-cutting Monday and will open to patients Tuesday, April 13 at 7 a.m., providing 24-hour emergency care to all ages.

Navarre ER, associated with Fort Walton Beach Medical Center, which held a ribbon cutting April 1, announced Monday that it would open at the same time.

That brings the total of emergency rooms in Navarre to three. Baptist Hospital opened theirs in the fall.

Less than two months after breaking ground on a distribution center in Alabama, Aldi has submitted plans for the construction of a Navarre store.

Santa Rosa County officials are expecting to respond this week to a site plan for a development that would bring a new Publix as well as other retail shops to a large parcel along U.S. Highway 98 on the eastern edge of the county.

The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Walnut arrived at the cutter’s new homeport in Pensacola last week after an extensive dry-dock period.

After a year of holding its monthly meetings in Milton, the Tourist Development Council unanimously agreed to move those meetings back to the Tiger Point Community Center beginning in May.

The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners discussed potential financial setbacks that Florida’s new $15 minimum wage could bring to the county.

Face masks in schools have been a hot topic of discussion in hallways, at dinner tables and at nearly every school board public forum over the past year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Parents have mixed feelings about the mask mandate for students.