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Proposed regulations to impose structure on Santa Rosa Board of Commissioner meetings were tabled last week after commissioners and citizens expressed concerns with the first drafts.

The resolutions would standardize everything from who could add last minute agenda items to how long citizens would be allowed to speak at public meetings.

Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) contractors poured concrete for the first new bridge deck needed to repair the Pensacola Bay Bridge Wednesday, January 13. Bridge decks are the portion of the structure that connect two pier locations to form what is referred to as a bridge span.

Florida Highway Patrol responded to a two-vehicle accident at 11 a.m. Thursday at County Road 191 (Garcon Point Road) and Interstate-10.

A vehicle traveling eastbound across Garcon Point Road in an attempt to pull onto the entrance ramp of I-10 East.

When the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) released its semiannual crime report recently, Santa Rosa County’s numbers were skewed.

The sheriff’s office had originally submitted four months of data for 2019 instead of six.

Following the granting of permits by the state Department of Environmental Protection, new beach mats have been added to three accesses on Navarre Beach.

(Associated Press) Florida attorney Fred Levin, who won a major legal battle against the tobacco industry in the 1990s, died Tuesday, several days after contracting the coronavirus. He was 83.

Levin’s death from complications of COVID-19 was confirmed by Levin Papantonio Rafferty attorney Mark Proctor.

The property that currently houses the Navarre branch of ERA American Realty at 8006 Navarre Pkwy. is slated to become a gas station and convenience store if the owner can procure a variance for the underground storage of gas tanks.

The zoning board will hear the request for variance by the applicant Plaza Street Partners, LLC who will be represented by Tiffany Lehman of Neikirk Engineering at the Feb. 11 zoning board meeting.

The half-brother of a woman found buried in a shallow grave on his property in Jay has been indicted by a Santa Rosa grand jury and charged with first degree premeditated murder.

Gov Ron DeSantis announced on Tuesday that he is expanding the Publix supermarket chain’s “footprint” in COVID-19 vaccination efforts and is sending vaccine doses to 26 stores in five Northwest Florida counties.

Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Cyber Crimes Unit have charged a Pace man with attempting to produce child pornography, traveling to meet a minor for sex and three other felonies.