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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has confirmed that a road-killed 4.5-year-old female white-tailed deer in Holmes County sampled during routine surveillance activities has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). It is the first known case of CWD in Florida, a contagious disease of the brain and central nervous system that is fatal to deer. The first case of CWD in North America was described in mule deer in Colorado in 1967. Florida is the most recent of 31 states to detect the disease, which also has been confirmed in four Canadian provinces, Finland, Norway, Sweden and South Korea.

The Fellowship of Churches Santa Rosa County is planning a day of music, food and fun for its first Juneteenth National Independence Day celebration Monday, June 19, on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Milton.

Tami McConnell, science department head at Navarre High School, smiled broadly as she and colleagues from Escambia, Okaloosa and Santa Rosa counties toured the Navarre Beach Marine Science Station last week.
“I’ve found my people!” she exclaimed.

The Fellowship of Churches Santa Rosa County is planning a day of music, food and fun for its first Juneteenth National Independence Day celebration Monday, June 19, on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Milton.

Residents called for Santa Rosa County Commissioner James Calkins’ resignation last week after comments he made May 25 about the Democratic Party.

About 30 years ago, several Milton-area churches began worshiping together monthly.
Today, the Fellowship of Churches Santa Rosa County guides a variety of activities designed to inform, empower and serve people.

Converting sunshine into clean, low-cost electricity requires modern technology, but Florida Power & Light hopes it’s found an old way to maintain its new solar energy center in East Milton.
“Sometimes, innovation is about trying something new and different,” said J.T. Young, vice president and general manager of Florida Power & Light Northwest Florida, June 7 at FPL’s ceremony commissioning its Blackwater River Solar Energy Center. “Sometimes, it’s about trying something tried and true in new ways.”

UPDATE AS OF JUNE 12: The Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office public information officer, Jillian Durkin, confirmed this morning that the victims were poisoned by a narcotic and one suspect has been interviewed. More to come as details are released.

Don’t “do unto others” using taxpayer money, Councilwoman Marilynn Farrow told her colleague’s Monday.

Sometimes, progress isn’t pretty.
The Pensacola Perdido Bays Estuary Program installed “litter booms” across Pond Creek in October 2021 to stop debris from flowing into the Blackwater River and, eventually, Blackwater and East bays and the Gulf of Mexico. Volunteers collect and catalog the debris each month, but the volume of litter and natural debris that builds up at the booms creates an unsightly mess.