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2014 Navarre Relay for Life Chairperson Brenda Whidden once considered herself a “closet survivor.” She has supported the American Cancer Society’s fundraiser in one way or another for eight years and the last three as a committee member.

Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward and other city and community leaders gathered April 25 in Plaza Ferdinand VII in downtown Pensacola to promote the installation of 20 new bike racks along Palafox Street.

At the Holley-Navarre Fire District’s meeting Monday night, fire commissioners discussed replacement of the seat left vacant by former fire commissioner Lauretta Aiken, who submitted a letter of resignation April 21.

The State Attorney’s Office announced last Thursday that Pensacola Police officer Chad Willhite had been cleared for the fatal Christmas Eve shooting of William “Cody” Goodman of Gulf Breeze.

Santa Rosa County commissioners voted April 25 to close the county’s 21 recycling drop-off sites until further notice due to health and safety risks from the overwhelming volume of recycling material not collected or processed by the county’s contractor, West Florida Recycling.

Local community leaders were updated on the progress of plans to replace the Pensacola Bay Bridge at a Project Advisory Group meeting last Tuesday, and were able to get some insight on the potential impacts it would have on Gulf Breeze.

For the past decade, a partnership between local utility systems called the Fairpoint Regional Utility Authority has provided a source of fresh water for people living in Gulf Breeze to Holley-Navarre.

It’s not hard to tell 2014 is an election year. Candidate signs are popping up in yards and businesses throughout the county. Some of those signs are placed in unauthorized locations, such as medians or right of ways.

Santa Rosa County Commissioners approved a $400,000 work order for Baskerville Donovan at their April 24 regular meeting. The funds will be used for engineering services to develop a stormwater management plan for the Holley by the Sea (HBTS) watershed, where extreme rainfall over the past year has exposed many drainage problems.

Dave Robau lives in Gulf Breeze, so he offered up Santa Rosa sites as an option when his company was contracted to help find a suitable location for a $400 million waste-to-energy gasification plant. He lured officials with ALFA Group, LLC to the county last week to scout potential sites for the project, which could bring 1,700-plus temporary and about 100 permanent jobs.