Adams Sanitation, which has 9,000 customers in the north end of Santa Rosa County, has submitted a permit to provide garbage pickup in the south end of the county.

The permit, filed Wednesday, was submitted with a letter challenging the county’s “exclusive franchise” agreement with Waste Pro. According to the letter, written by Adams’ legal representative Nathan Boyles, the ordinance assuring franchise exclusivity was adopted by the county June 9, 2011.

In a whirlwind of yelling, confusion and he-said-she-said during a Board of County Commissioners meeting Tuesday morning, District 3 Commissioner James Calkins voted to withhold funding from School Resource Officers in Santa Rosa County even though he verbally supported them five times during the same meeting.

More than a dozen members attended the Holley Navarre Water System’s monthly meeting June 15, with many asking for more transparency from the board.

Gone are the signs indicating a merge to one lane that slowed traffic to a crawl at times going across the Pensacola Bay Bridge over the last three weeks.