Community Archive

A lot changed for Stephanie Lawrence Yelton in 2012. It was a year of ups and a year of devastating lows.

The Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce’s Annual “Christmas in the Park” event will be held Saturday, Dec.1, from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. in Navarre Park at the foot of the Navarre Bridge.

In a bittersweet celebration, the Panhandle Butterfly House held its final Monarch Madness at the current location Saturday as children learned about butterflies and even released them into the wild.

Navarre residents got a chance to talk one-on-one with law enforcement Oct. 3 as part of Coffee with a Cop. Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office leaders unplugged for a couple of hours and set up in a public place to make themselves available for a chat. 

Wind chimes sway back and forth in the breeze. Squirrels play in the yard, scampering along with pecans in their mouths. Inside the back room of his Navarre home, the screened windows providing a view of this playground for nature, Nat Mack sits back in a chair. Tears begin to well up in his eyes.

Mark Quinn grew up around nature. That sort of came with the territory of his dad running safari parks. His father, Pat, is also responsible for starting the Gulf Breeze Zoo.

Plans to construct a wildlife rehabilitation and conservation education center in Holley took a big step forward last week as the county issued a development order for property along Clopton Circle.

In a unanimous decision by the commissioners present, miniature pigs were approved to live in the subdivisions of Santa Rosa County.

The University of West Florida (UWF) launched the second installment of Gulf Stories Sept. 24, a free online course that explores a range of topics, from art and advanced manufacturing to citizen science and coastal ecology.

In one night, the ladies and gents of Navarre raised more for the exceptional families of the Emerald Coast than they did in the entirety of last year.