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The Highway 98 closure, which was originally scheduled to take place on the night of Oct. 29 and the morning of Oct. 30 has been rescheduled due to potential bad weather.

The closure of Highway 98 to reinstall the Hurlburt Field pedestrian bridge will now take place on Sat., Nov. 5 and Sun., Nov. 6.

On Sun., Oct. 16, IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area held their annual meeting to announce the recipients of grants at the Hilton Gulf Front on Pensacola Beach.

IMPACT 100 is an organization of women who pool resources and funds together to donate to nonprofits in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. This was the 19th year they awarded grants to nonprofits.

A Navarre man will be spending the next 25 years behind bars and the rest of his life on sex offender probation after he was sentenced on Oct. 20. Michael Joseph Bouley, 66, was also designated as a sexual predator by Circuit Court Judge Darlene Dickey.

According to a press release from the Office of the State Attorney for the First Judicial Circuit of Florida, the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call regarding child molestation on Feb. 18, 2022.

One in eight women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime, according to breastcancer.org. One in 10 women in the U.S. are uninsured.

In 2020, Florida was among the states reporting the highest percentages of uninsured nonelderly women at 12%-22%, as stated by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

In his final act as a member of the Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization’s board of directors, Bob Cole asked the TPO to consider his hometown’s plan to save its downtown.

Competing at a drill meet in Gulf Breeze over the weekend, the Navarre Navy JROTC unit turned in a strong performance.

Area residents who enjoy crocheting or knitting are invited to help GFWC Santa Rosa Woman’s Club provide handmade afghans for campers at Camp Boggy Creek in Eustis, Florida.  Martha Brenenstahl, club chairman of the state president’s project, is asking for volunteers with time and yarn on their hands.“We know many people enjoy crocheting or knitting for a hobby but don’t always have a place to donate their handmade creations,” says Brenenstahl.  “We hope people will open their hearts and yarn baskets.”  The camp prides itself on “handmade” rather than purchased afghans.

It’s a cliché because it’s true: Anything worth doing is worth doing right.

Santa Rosa County Commissioner Dave Piech stopped short of using the time-honored adage last week when answering a resident’s questions about repairs to East Bay Boulevard in Navarre, but the message was clear.

A former church youth director at Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church was sentenced to 10 years in prison and five years of probation. Ryan Walsh, 30, pleaded no contest to lewd or lascivious battery. Walsh was arrested in February 2020 after an investigation by the Gulf Breeze Police Department into allegations Walsh had inappropriately touched a 13 year […]