Community Archive

Santa Rosa County residents saddled up and chowed down Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Junes Ates Covered Arena in Milton for Seafood and Saddles.

Holley by the Sea resident Crystal Reder knew she had artistic talent since she was five years old. She said she could paint and draw better than her peers, and she challenged herself to always be the best in the class.

Students in grades three through five gathered outside West Navarre Intermediate Friday morning for a flag ceremony that put an exclamation point on Patriot Week at the school.

For the first time in nearly a decade the YMCA is increasing its membership rate. But it’s only $1.

Dust blowing from the construction site of Sacred Heart’s new clinic in Tiger Point has brought a warning from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

For any tourism area, the months immediately following the peak summer season can see a lag in bed-tax collections and visitor numbers.

When residents of our area have a question about local history, they turn to historian, author and Pensacola State College professor Dr. Brian Rucker.

The Florida Department of Transportation is going to expand U.S. Highway 98 to three lanes on each side, but the details are still in the works.

Only the sound of a bird chirping and the hum of a lone car driving by down the road on a sun-splashed morning broke through the moment of silence during the flag ceremony Navarre High School Navy Junior ROTC unit does each year to commemorate the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Santa Rosa County Tax Collector Stan Nichols is one of only a few of Florida’s 67 Tax Collectors to earn a special designation for excellence in the field of financial operations. A judging panel named by the Florida Tax Collectors Association performed a detailed review of the Tax Collector’s financial records, practices and use of technology in considering Nichols for the honor.