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Water management district lends Calkins a hand

Santa Rosa County District 3 Commissioner James Calkins floated his “Protecting Water and Saving Jobs Initiative” as a supplement to the Comprehensive Plan borrow pit expansion amendment that the county now seems to be abandoning.

However, the initiative could become part of what the county does next, if commissioners vote Feb. 25 2021, to drop the borrow pit issue as it is currently.

10 big issues to watch during the 2021 session

The 2021 legislative session will start March 2, with Gov. Ron DeSantis giving the annual State of the State address.

Lawmakers will take up a wide range of issues during the 60-day session, along with negotiating a budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

Here are 10 big issues to watch during the session:

Golf course survived 2020, future planning underway

Holley Navarre Water System board members received updates on the Club at Hidden Creek course at their monthly meeting Feb. 16.

The unaudited 2020 year to date financials included the news that there were about 7,000 fewer rounds played that year than in 2019.

Prison guard changes pitched for ‘system in crisis’

 Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Mark Inch has been making the rounds in Tallahassee to pitch lawmakers on a plan to spend more than $26 million to shorten prison guards’ regular daily work shifts. Inch sells the switch from 12-hour shifts to 8.5-hour shifts, already in effect at roughly a third of Florida’s state-run prisons, […]

DeSantis pushes for election changes

 Contending the state needs to strengthen election integrity, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday proposed a series of changes in Florida’s voting process.

DeSantis made the announcement three months after proclaiming that Florida had vanquished the “ghost” of the 2000 presidential recount and other well-documented election problems.

Historic season for Navarre ends in Elite Eight

Once the tears dry and the sting of defeat subsides, Navarre’s girls basketball team will come to appreciate all that it accomplished during an historic season.

It is a season that ends in the Elite Eight, a 69-63 loss to 2020 state runner-up Wekiva  punctuating it. But the Raiders never took their foot off the gas pedal from an effort standpoint in in their attempt to pull off a monumental upset.

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