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Damaged metal signposts are getting a second life as underwater microhabitat for marine life in Northwest Florida.

Mayor Heather Lindsay proclaimed September as Suicide Awareness Month during a City Council meeting Sept. 8, presenting a proclamation to Pastor Bill Wright of Share Your Heart of Northwest Florida.

A Santa Rosa County jury found a state prison inmate guilty of manslaughter in connection of a 2022 incident where he strangled his cellmate to death, according to a news release from the State Attorney Ginger Bowden Madden’s office.

Santa Rosa County commissioners agreed Sept. 8 to move forward with amending the county’s land development code to require an agricultural exemption before landowners in agricultural zoning districts can clear land without a permit.

With the approval of the consent agenda at the Sept. 10 Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners meeting, officials will approve the final $7.6 million contract for the Milton Interchange Park Wastewater Treatment Plant, which will push total costs above $34 million.

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.

Santa Rosa County will receive $525,000 in state grants to design an expansion of Whiting Aviation Park and to buy land near NAS Whiting Field to protect the base from encroachment, according to a news release from Santa Rosa County officials.

The man who first found Danika Troy’s body in the woods off Kimberly Road in Floridatown has been sentenced to prison.

Mitchell Eddins, 46, was sentenced to four years in state prison and 364 days in county jail after pleading guilty to felony petit theft and failing to report a death to the Medical Examiner’s Office or law enforcement.

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.