In a sturdy building that looks like it’s meant to hunker down in during a storm, a crew of dispatchers works 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

They’re the people whose voices you will hear if you call 911.

Despite persistent effort, a commissioner was unable to delay the Santa Rosa Board of County Commissioners from voting to give a municipality in his district $1 million toward construction of a park.

Holley-Navarre Water System’s monthly board meeting on Aug. 17 concluded in “record time,” as described by one of the board members after the meeting was adjourned.

In the last year, Kaitlyn Hartshorn lost her sister, spent two months in the hospital, gave birth to twins and finally purchased their new home.