At the top of the travel itinerary it says, “Take pride in how far you have come and have faith in how far you will go.” Five Navarre High School 2016 graduates are going far, both literally and in their life plans. The teens are embarking on the trip of a lifetime, described by them as a coming-of-age trip of sorts. Riley Roberson, Patrick Keele, Jeff Holland, Jacob Blea and Gabe Morrill left Friday morning at 2 a.m. on a 20-day journey with their sights set on a few national parks, including Mt. Rushmore, Yosemite, Mt. Zion and Olympic National Park. First stop is Kansas City, Mo. for some world-famous barbecue then it’s off to The Badlands in South Dakota. The group will travel to Wyoming, Washington, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and back home again camping all along the way.
Police video cameras are getting considerable credit of late for recording accounts of crimes and clashes with civilians, and now a Yellow Cab driver and his recording acumen are being applauded for helping apprehend two hit-and-run suspects in Gulf Breeze.
Noise fills the cafeteria at Navarre High School on a Friday morning. Fifth-graders are busy playing games after a week of putting their minds to work at the first-ever STEAM camp in the Santa Rosa County School District.
Violating the Santa Rosa County zoning code can come back to bite you. No one knows that better than Milton resident Joshua Pittman, who as of Thursday night, June 23, had to shut down his business and sole source of income.
A rezoning to allow a private school to be built in Navarre was passed to roaring applause at the Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners’ rezoning meeting May 26.
The Bagdad Mill Site Park, a grassy space on the bank of Blackwater River and Pond Creek, has been named a Florida Heritage Site, an honor awarded to only six locations in Santa Rosa County.
Middle-school students will be returning to updated kitchens and cafeterias this August thanks to a roughly $1 million renovation at Holley-Navarre and Gulf Breeze middle schools.
The Blue Water Escape Charter boat Charles Garrett Stone and his father, Charles Samuel, are taking out to the Destin Pass sways back and forth in the choppy waves of the Gulf of Mexico.
Repairs of the irrigation system for the parched fairways and greens of Tiger Point Golf Club are underway by a new subcontractor as questions remain about the performance of the consulting firm that leased the facility last October.
