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It’s been 50 years since a pass connected the Santa Rosa Sound to the Gulf of Mexico. And with it, 50 years of hoping for a second chance.

Flooding after even minor rainfall still plagues parts of the City of Gulf Breeze more than a year after the April 2014 storm – despite $1.8 million in government grant funding spent to keep neighborhoods dry.

The recent award of a Santa Rosa County contract for military affairs consulting to a company that had been administratively dissolved by the Florida Division of Corporations raises questions about how such applicants are vetted, said Commissioner Bob Cole.

Gov. Rick Scott Monday directed the flags of the United States and the State of Florida to be flown at half-staff in honor of the five service members who were murdered at recruiting centers in Chattanooga, Tenn., last week. The order is effective immediately throughout the state until sunset on the day of the final military member’s date of interment. 

A 21-year-old Gulf Breeze man was arrested Monday on eight felony burglary charges and eight misdemeanor theft charges after a search warrant turned up multiple items stolen during vehicle burglaries.

The rezoning board is expected to discuss a conditional use to allow development of 19.2 acres adjacent to Baptist Medical Park on Navarre Parkway and Ortega Street for a senior living community.

For the first time in his nearly 20-year tenure, Santa Rosa County Administrator Hunter Walker suggested raising property taxes, and commissioners July 21 approved advertising a possible increase of up to 6.4 percent.

Santa Rosa County Commissioners Monday withheld support for a redesigned, less costly Navarre pedestrian overpass, citing issues such as a lack of public parking in the proposed area of U.S. 98 at Presidio Street.

Born in 1927, June Rosell grew up during the Great Depression, hunting and fishing in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

Curly, a toy poodle, was 17 years old when he died. But old age didn’t kill him — grooming did, his owners and veterinarians said.