Longtime Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce member Ralph Agnew helped spearhead an effort to have the Florida Department of Transportation do a traffic analysis in areas along U.S. Highway 98 that, as Agnew states, “have been prone to accidents for years.”
Santa Rosa County Emergency Management communications are getting an upgrade this month thanks to a new early warning system and App initiated by the Florida Department of Emergency Management.
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.
