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Locklin Lake was created after two streams were dammed to provide a location to operate a sawmill. A mill town - Milton - grew around it.

A majority of projects in Escambia County survived the governor's veto pen, with $52.5 million making the final cut.

Santa Rosa County will receive $13.2 million from the state including $2.3 million for a pedestrian overpass over U.S. Highway 98 in Gulf Breeze.

Barring a governor's veto, Milton's Blackwater river walk could be headed 360 feet south with a $1 million infusion from the Florida Legislature.

The Legislature is set to vote on the state budget Friday during the final day of this year's session. The state's budget runs each year from July 1 to June 30. Lawmakers also can seek funding for individual projects or initiatives, and all together Pensacola-area lawmakers filed 44 separate appropriations requests during the 2021 legislative session.   Not all of those appropriations requests made it through and those that did still could be killed by Gov. Ron DeSantis using his line-item veto power over the budget. Here's a look at what Sen. Doug Broxson, R-Gulf Breeze; Rep. Alex Andrade...