Looking for a way to help out the local animal population this holiday season? Consider donating to Project Hallelujah, an initiative to get a growing population of feral cats in Pace neutered or spayed.

“The Project Hallelujah cats are so overpopulated that each new litter is sick and dying,” said a press release from A HOPE, which has stepped in to help the caregivers, who have been trying to control the population by trapping the animals, neutering them and returning them to live out their natural lives.

The owner of land off Berryhill Road in Milton is looking to bring self-storage to the area to accommodate the increase in residents in the surrounding area, but due to an ordinance by the Board of County Commissioners in 2006 his land use is limited.

On Friday, Dec. 10 the Preserve Navarre nonprofit welcomed its 100th member.

On Dec. 9, the commissioners narrowly approved a rezoning of a parcel of land that the zoning board previously recommended be denied without objection.

A 54-year-old man from Crawfordville, Florida caused a Thursday afternoon accident in the westbound lanes of Interstate 10 at the beginning of the Blackwater River Bridge. He was not injured, but his passenger received minor injuries.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, he failed to notice that traffic had completely stopped in front of him and struck a vehicle carrying a 34-year-old Crestview woman and a 3-year-old girl. Neither were injured.

A man accused of driving from Georgia specifically to kill a Navarre Beach man was indicted by a grand jury Dec. 14. John Patrick Gillebeau, a 60-year-old from Ellijay, Georgia, has been charged with first degree premeditated murder in the death of Victor Stephen Trial.

A Mobile, Alabama man who turned himself in seven months after a fatal hit and run accident in Navarre on U.S. Highway 98 has been arrested and charged. Johnny Mosely, who is 25, has been identified as the driver of the box truck that struck and killed Robert Triplett Sr. as he was walking to work on the morning of March 2.