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“This is not a sad event,” Jennifer Steinmeier said Wednesday evening just after sunset.

Monsignor Luke Hunt still meets people in the grocery store who were helped by his church 10 years ago after Hurricane Ivan.

Navy veteran Dennis Del Rosario is the newest member of the Midway Fire District after he was sworn in at the Oct. 14 meeting.

Four juvenile female runaways from Texas were arrested by Santa Rosa County deputies Sunday morning after crashing a stolen car on Navarre Beach Causeway. There were no injuries. The oldest runaway was 14 years old.

“History was definitely made,” said Wesley Meiss, new mayor of the City of Milton, during an Oct. 14 special session to install new city leaders.

Santa Rosa County Tax Collector Stan Colie Nichols and Property Appraiser Greg Brown appeared Oct. 20 before county commissioners, recommending the board gather more details before engaging in a proposed agreement with the Florida Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Funding Agency.

Is your sprinkler head spewing uncontrollably?
If you live in Gulf Breeze, City Hall staff hopes to answer that question soon.

A proposed amendment to Florida’s Constitution could generate more than $18 billion over the next two decades for the purchase of additional state conservation and recreation lands. However, Amendment 1 opponents say the measure would restrict state budgeting and could harm local economies by removing private property from tax rolls.

One is a retired first-grade teacher. Several others are retired military members and business owners. Then there’s the marine biologist. And the head librarian.

Keanu Medina, the 19-year-old Navarre man who police said crashed his Chevrolet Tahoe into a Jeep Liberty, killing the driver, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of DUI manslaughter.