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After spending $90,000 to improve accommodations for BooFest, the Holley-Navarre Water System will no longer host the annual event.

BP was back in court Tuesday, trying to oust the man responsible for doling out billions of dollars in settlement money to businesses claiming they were hampered by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

For the first time in its history, the Holley-Navarre Water System (HNWS) will hold an election recount which will take place Feb. 12 at 8 a.m.

During the 2016 election cycle, Santa Rosa County Commissioners will ask voters once, twice if necessary, to reconsider supporting a temporary penny sales tax to fund construction of a new county courthouse.

It happens just about every Wednesday that Dr. John Abrams sees patients in his Westside office. Someone sees his name tag and asks, “Was that JJ Abrams who had an optometry practice on the Westside your father or relative? My great-grandmother or grandmother used to see him.”

Happy Tails Retriever Rescue Inc., Navarre, has joined thousands of animal welfare organizations across North America that list their homeless pets on Petfinder, the online leader in responsible pet adoptions. Petfinder, the largest database of adoptable animals on the Internet, has been committed to animal welfare and rescue organizations dedicated to the cause since its founding in1996.

From brain-devouring zombies in “The Walking Dead” to crime-scene bloodshed on “CSI,” special-effects wizard Sam Nicholson has delivered gore galore to television viewers. But he says nothing has personally affected him more than the commercial he made for Super Bowl Sunday.

Attention Gulf reef fish anglers: You’ve asked for better data and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has taken action. Now the FWC needs your help.

International tax attorney, Vietnam veteran and Rosemary Beach resident Cym Lowell was the featured guest speaker at the Mid-Bay Rotary Club’s meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 14, at Bluewater Bay Golf Course Club House. Lowell discussed his initiative, Operation: Next Chapter, and how the proceeds from the sale of his book, Jaspar’s War, are donated to Soldiers’ Angels Project: Valour- IT, to purchase voice-controlled laptop computers for wounded military heroes, who for various reasons, have lost the use of their hands. 

Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the Florida Keys if British researchers win approval to use the bugs against two extremely painful viral diseases.