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The weekend food program for students in Santa Rosa County is in its fifth year. What started out at one school in Gulf Breeze has expanded into Navarre.

The Santa Rosa Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan is finished and is now awaiting approval from the county zoning board.

Water tap fees have been an unwelcome surprise to many new businesses exploring Navarre locations. Holley-Navarre Water System (HNWS) has officially made the fees more palatable for non-residential businesses that receive a building permit between Sept. 1, 2015, and Aug. 31, 2016.  Depending on the number of full-time employees, businesses could see an automatic 50 percent or 25 percent reduction in fees.

Show us the money. That’s what City of Gulf Breeze leaders are waiting to see as their light at the end of the Tiger Point Golf Club tunnel.

Koebi King didn’t see the 3-foot-long cottonmouth snake that bit him just after midnight on Aug. 4 until after the fangs had suddenly sunk into his ankle and been withdrawn.

An Army Green Beret from Rhode Island has been killed in Afghanistan just a month after he was honored at the historic Fourth of July parade in his hometown of Bristol.

A 1991 ordinance allows beach establishments to sell alcohol until 2:30 a.m. while businesses in the rest of the county are required to stop selling alcohol at midnight. 

The two airmen who died in a military training exercise at Eglin Range Aug. 3, were honored Aug. 7 at Hurlburt Field.

Samuel Mead has two passions: fixing things and helping others. As a sales representative at ACE Hardware in Navarre, he is able to do just that.

When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law on July 30, 1965, roughly half of Americans 65 and older had no health insurance.