In 2009 former Florida Governor Charlie Christ signed into law a significant increase in annual motor vehicle registration fees. There is now wide spread support to reverse that action. Senator Joe Negron (R-Stuart) filed legislation last fall, proposing a reduction in those annual fees. So far the bill has passed two out of three committees without the first nay vote.
A report released last week by Florida Realtors® showed housing sales in the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent MSA, which includes Santa Rosa and Escambia counties, outpaced sales in other northwest Florida locations stretching as far as Panama City.
Navarre CERT will host a Community Emergency Response Team training March 21-23 and March 28-30. It is open to adults and teens of at least 14 years of age.
“I was born in Sanford, Florida, Dec. 5, 1926, but when I was nine months old, we moved to Tallahassee, and stayed there until I came over here,” Maude Guess said, giving me the opportunity to ask a dumb question.
Rising from a surrounding forest of longleaf pines with a clear understory of wiregrass is Santa Rosa County’s Iron Mountain. The unmarked, mostly unknown landmark is located within Blackwater River State Forest, near the Berrydale community in north Santa Rosa County.
A company based in Mobile, Alabama has been selected by county commissioners to provide marketing services for the Santa Rosa County Tourist Development Council (TDC). Davis, South, Barnette and Patrick Advertising agency was the top pick out of five competing firms, including three local businesses and one group based in Tennessee.
More than 100 Navarre area Cub Scouts started with blocks of wood and finished with custom-made hot rods just in time for this year’s Pinewood Derby, Jan. 18 and Jan. 25 at St. Sylvester’s Catholic Church, West Navarre Intermediate School and West Navarre Primary School.
Motorists traveling on S.R. 87 in Navarre will see orange cones and barricades near Laredo Street. FDOT reports crews are working to replace pipe under the sidewalk on S.R. 87 and through the intersection of Laredo Street.
The Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce (NBACOC) announced Friday Chef Marcus Samuelsson will be the headliner for the 2014 Taste of Navarre, which will be held Sunday, May 4 in Navarre Park.
