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Okaloosa County Sheriffs’ Office and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are offering the public its sixth opportunity in three years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous prescription drugs.  The service is free and anonymous.  No questions will be asked.

Ken Walker, Holley Navarre Water System general manager, received a raise for the first time in at least 10 years during the HNWS April 16 board meeting.

One of the world’s largest labor unions is helping Santa Rosa County school bus drivers make their case against Durham School Services’ local operation.

The Florida House of Representatives unanimously passed Bill 1129, Infants Born Alive, on April 17.

“This is the first bill of the session that passed 119-0,” said Rep. Cary Pigman, R- Avon Park.

Santa Rosa County commissioners discussed pursuing a local option sales tax to fund a new judicial center at the April 22 commission committee meeting.

A truck collided with a Santa Rosa County school bus carrying Navarre High School students on County Road 399, near Bay Club Drive, at 3:55 p.m. April 19, in rainy conditions.

For the last 27 years, Navarre resident Clint Hale, 64, a U.S. Air Force veteran, has joined other disabled veterans from across the country to participate in the Disabled Veterans Sports Clinic in Colorado. The clinic is open to veterans with certain disabilities such as spinal-cord injuries, amputations and the visually impairment.

Many who own property near the Live Oak Boat Ramp in the Holley community don’t want a vacant lot to be cleared and paved.  parking lot at the Live Oak Boat Ramp.

Priton LLC, a home-manufacturing company code-named Project Breeze by the Santa Rosa Economic Development Office, officially has arrived. Priton already has hired a start-up staff of nine and plans to add 200 more jobs at its Santa Rosa Industrial Park location this year. 

Although Milton City Councilman Wesley Meiss and others had hoped the city would set a precedent to push for more Sunday alcohol sales in the north end of Santa Rosa County, the council retreated from an April 1 executive committee vote which initially had approved allowing restaurants in the downtown tourist district to serve alcohol on Sundays.