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The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners followed the recommendation from the county’s zoning board, denying a request to rezone 503 acres off Berryhill Road for a subdivision and neighborhood shopping area that county staff said could hold as many as 2,000 homes.

Santa Rosa County cut the ribbon on the new Allentown Community Park, a brand-new park and outdoor fitness center, on Sept. 23. Commissioner Rhett Rowell said the project came together with donated land, grant funding and work done in-house to save taxpayer funds.

Opponents of the proposed Navarre Beach boardwalk dominated the public forum at the Santa Rosa County Commission meeting on Sept. 22 in Milton, pressing commissioners on the project as a public workshop is now less than a month away.

U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Anthony Green, former command chief of Air Force Special Operations Command, was found guilty of four offenses in violation of two articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, including indecent recording in violation of Article 120c and possessing, viewing and producing child pornography in violation of Article 134.

During September and October, a traveling exhibit featuring artifacts from the first Spanish settlement in the New World will shine a light on Pensacola’s connection to the Aztec people.

“Indios Amigos: Aztec Allies and the (New) Spanish Conquest of La Florida” features artifacts from the 1559 Tristan De Luna expedition and settlement in Pensacola.

Santa Rosa County commissioners on Sept. 22 unanimously renewed the county’s five-cent local option gas tax, extending the levy on fuel purchases that funds transportation projects.

A Jay High School social studies teacher who once walked the school’s hallways as a student is now the school’s teacher of the year; an honor he credits to those who taught him.

A Pace woman who shot her husband in 2022 and then tried to have her husband “knocked off” by a hitman was sentenced to 60 years in prison by Santa Rosa County Judge Clifton Drake.

A person was found deceased in a burnt out vehicle on the Eglin Range in the early morning hours of Sept. 23.

The vehicle was found near Range Road 234 and Lewis Turner Boulevard.

Tagged birds passing within 10 miles of Navarre Park will soon be tracked by scientists across the world.