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Curt Carver spent nearly three decades working in city government in Illinois, and now he is bringing his experience to the City of Gulf Breeze. Carver was selected to be Deputy City Manager from a pool of nearly 100 applicants.

Pensacola International Airport reported that passenger traffic through the airport in July was the highest monthly total since May 2011. According to the report released Aug. 18, 153,476 passengers used the airport, which was about a 6.5 percent increase over July 2013 results.

Ninety-five loggerhead sea turtles hatched from a nest Aug. 17 on Navarre Beach. It was the first hatching of the season.

The U.S. Treasury Department announced Aug. 13 a new rule that outlines grant programs established by the RESTORE Act as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Santa Rosa County Commissioners have added some wiggle room for funding a new courthouse. The board voted Aug. 14 to propose a one-cent sales tax for five years instead of four. That decision came after cost projections rose to $50 million.

Results of the Navarre incorporation feasibility study are in, showing a city can be formed without increasing taxes. Now residents in six precincts can express support for or opposition to the matter. Santa Rosa commissioners last Thursday gave final approval for a non-binding straw poll on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.

Reports of increased animal abandonment in Navarre have made their way to local animal organizations.

Sea turtles have been busy making nests along the Emerald Coast, and according to a Gulf Islands National Seashore (GINS) biologist, 143 baby sea turtles found their way to the Gulf from Pensacola Beach Thursday night. The first baby turtles had hatched July 29 from a nest at Perdido Key.

An MC-130H pilot received an Air Force-level award Aug. 7 at the 15th Special Operations Squadron auditorium at Hurlburt Field. 

Mozart, Beethoven or even Shakespeare — pregnant mothers have been known to expose their babies to many forms of auditory stimulation. But according to researchers at the University of Florida, all a baby really needs is the sound of his or her mother’s voice.