It started with Craigslist and a help-wanted post seeking elves – Santa’s elves.
Yolanda Navarrete, who lives in New Jersey but spends as much time as possible in Navarre each year, decided being an elf sounded fun.
Our gift to you this year is a collection of the top reader-submitted photos from 2020.
We received hundreds of entries and culled them down to less than a dozen. Look for more of readers’ top photos in future stories and Facebook posts.
They say that smells carry you back to wherever you were when that scent imprinted on you.
For me, it’s music.
Taking a chilly dip on New Year’s Day has become a tradition in Navarre over the past several years.
After a celebratory evening of ringing in the New Year the night before, hundreds of Navarre locals and tourists typically submerge themselves in sub-60-degree water for a great cause.
The Holley-Navarre Water System board voted 3-to-2 Tuesday to propose a 2021 budget to utility members that includes a 6.2% rate increase. Two board members were absent.
The hike was subdivided into a one-time 5% rate bump and a 1.2% increase based on the Federal Consumer Price Index.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday backed a controversial reservoir being built in the Everglades while announcing the state will use a pool of environmental money to help Miami-Dade County protect Biscayne Bay from continued degradation.
DeSantis said his office will continue to support the $1.6 billion Everglades Agricultural Area reservoir, which was approved by the Legislature in 2017 but has recently been questioned by new Senate President Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby.
It will be a lot harder to put proposed constitutional amendments on the 2022 ballot in Florida.
Heavy turnout in this year’s election and a new law that seeks to limit ballot initiatives have driven up the number of petition signatures that groups will have to submit to get on the ballot in 2022 and to trigger crucial reviews by the Florida Supreme Court.
Florida is receiving a shipment of about 120,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses from Pfizer this week and will get another 360,000-plus doses of a vaccine from Moderna, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday.
The second shipment of the Pfizer vaccine will come days after DeSantis announced what was expected to be a week-long delay in the new supply.
Michael Carter and Tommy Leggett are entering the 2021 NFL Draft. That surprises no one.
Both are talented football players good enough to excel at the next level. It was obvious they were destined to be special when they were standout athletes at Navarre High School.
