Community Archive

The holiday season was made a little brighter for senior citizens in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, thanks to the Christmas for Seniors Initiative.

Carson Greenhaw knows no limits. His dreams have no limits either because autism isn’t something he allows to be a barrier.

The surf along Navarre Beach let up for this year’s New Year’s Day plunges, but the temperatures were almost freezing.

Navarre was a very different community 40 years ago. In a lot of ways it was barely a community at all. In a way Navarre was simply the intersection of U.S. Highway 98 and State Road 87 with a few homes nearby.

When parents receive a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder for their child, it can be overwhelming. Stacey Greenhaw knows this well.

In a typical year, Navarre’s Navy Junior ROTC program puts in 10,000 hours of community service.

Navarre’s Junior ROTC unit swept the orienteering competition for the second consecutive year and is headed back to nationals.

It started as five parents with a common need: support for their special-needs young adults who had aged out of high school.

On the first day of the year, Navarre Beach residents and visitors will gather for a long-standing tradition. Toes in the cold sand, some dressed in costume, they will gather at the edge of the Gulf of Mexico or inches from Santa Rosa Sound.

Holley-Navarre Primary school students got their very own book signing, special craft and a lesson in publishing Friday with local author Sara Taylor in honor of the launch of “Mira the Misfit Sea Dragon.”