A water main break on Tuesday morning prompted the Bagdad-Garcon Point Water System to issue a boil water notice for customers.

Santa Rosa County Animal Services will host a low-cost pet vaccination and microchip clinic on Saturday, May 30, from 9-11 a.m. at Santa Rosa County Animal Services, 4451 Pine Forest Road in Milton. Only cats and dogs are eligible to be microchipped and vaccinated.

Memorial Day will be held Monday, May 25, this year. In recognition of the holiday, there are multiple ceremonies planned in Santa Rosa County.

For retired Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. David Post, getting from the bedroom to the bathroom used to mean crawling on his hand and knees.
Post lost his left foot to a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2011. A recent ankle fusion has made him rely more on a wheelchair to get around. In a regular home, that meant narrow doorways his chair couldn’t clear and a bathroom that felt more of an obstacle course than a relaxing getaway.
“I’ve crawled on my hands and knees to safely transition into a shower and then crawled back on the same floor to exit, in situations more than I’d like to admit,” Post said in a presentation outside his new home.
With help from a national nonprofit, those instances are now a memory.

Kimahri Blevins, 15, and Gabriel Williams, 16, are due back in court this summer.
The pair were charged with first-degree premeditated murder or felony murder for allegedly killing their classmate Danika Troy, 14. The two teens were indicted Dec. 19, 2025.

Citing public safety concerns and costs, a plan to adopt student ID cards for Santa Rosa County students died due to the lack of support from members of the Santa Rosa County School Board, with School Board Chair Carol Boston as the only member to make a motion to approve the item.

David Farrow spent his life helping when he could. From being an Army veteran to helping teachers in need when running an appliance store in Georgia, to sitting on school advisory committees while his son moved through the grades. Now he is eyeing a seat on the Santa Rosa County School Board.

A Navarre man was arrested on May 14 after a warrant was executed because he allegedly trespassed on a neighbor’s property nude and removed a security camera mounted outside her home.

When Erin Nisewonger came back to Santa Rosa County after spending four years in Hawaii, she expected more green space and improved infrastructure. What she got was storage units and car washes

Two U.S. Navy students stationed at NAS Pensacola were arrested May 2, after deputies responded to a burglary in progress at Sterling Fibers, located at 5005 Sterling Way in Pace, according to an arrest report from the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office.