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Several local officials traveled to Tallahassee last week to meet with other county leaders and talk to local legislative members. The event was 2021 Legislative Day organized by the Florida Association of Counties.

The Tourist Development Council recommended spending $67,000 to fund more than a dozen events planned for its next fiscal year, which begins October 2021.

After nearly three hours of discussion and debate Thursday evening, the Santa Rosa Board of Commissioners approved 3-2 to allow rezoning of 315 acres of land in Pace.

Pensacola International Airport and United Airlines Invite You to #FlyEasy with Four New Destinations United Airlines will offer expanded service to Pensacola, Gateway to the Gulf Coast, with four new nonstop destinations beginning in May 2021: Cleveland (CLE), Milwaukee (MKE), Cincinnati (CVG), and Pittsburgh (PIT).

A windfall of $600,000 that was recently added to the Tourist Development Council budget helped board members Wednesday decide to recommend funding for some county improvements.

John Kippe is all too familiar with the word pandemic. He was born in Flint, Michigan July 14, 1940.

Two years later, he came down with poliovirus.

Santa Rosa County Planning and Zoning Director Shawn Ward educated the Zoning Board about proposed updates to the Land Development Code in a meeting March 18.

Board members from District 1, District 2, and District 5 were present at the meeting.

At the beginning of March, the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office was down about 20 sworn officers.

Now that number has been cut nearly in half.

Two Milton City Council members have resigned in a week, with the second sharing the news at the March 23 Board of County Commissioners meeting.

George Jordan addressed commissioners during the public forum, thanking them for their support during the nearly three years he has served on the council.

People loved Jason Cox, a Navarre hometown boy who surfed his entire life, fathered four children, fell in love with beautiful women and married two of them.