Tagged birds passing within 10 miles of Navarre Park will soon be tracked by scientists across the world.

No one has held Santa Rosa County’s District 4 commission seat for more than one term in the past 16 years, something no other district shares.

Santa Rosa County will hold a Board of County Commissioners meeting on Sept. 22 at 8:30 a.m. at the Santa Rosa County Administrative Building in Milton. The county calendar confirms the regular meeting for that date and time.

Santa Rosa County has received a low bid of more than $8.3 million for the proposed Navarre Beach Boardwalk, a project that has dominated public comment at county meetings for nearly a month.

Wendell Hall had been sheriff of Santa Rosa County for about eight months when he walked out of a hotel breakfast in Ocala and found a crowd of Florida sheriffs standing around a television.

A jet had hit one of the World Trade Center towers, someone told him. Nobody knew if it was an accident. Hall was still watching when the second plane hit.

Santa Rosa County commissioners agreed Sept. 8 to direct staff to draft an ordinance regulating animal tethering countywide.

Santa Rosa County Commissioner Ray Eddington told residents opposed to a proposed Navarre Beach boardwalk that they were hypocrites and suggested they leave the county toward the end of a public comment period at a Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners agenda meeting Sept. 8.

The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office has agreed to return an additional $1 million to offset its increase in the upcoming fiscal year budget, County Administrator Brad Baker told Santa Rosa County Commissioners at a committee meeting Aug. 25.

The money would go into fund balance for commissioners to allocate at a later date, Baker said.

State Sen. Don Gaetz said he will file legislation overhauling the Florida Department of Children and Families in the next legislative session, outlining 10 provisions at a news conference at the Santa Rosa County Courthouse on Sept. 4.

Santa Rosa County commissioners denied a request on Aug. 27 to build a 150-foot cell tower behind the Walmart in Tiger Point.