More than 18 members of the Holley Navarre Professional Firefighters Local #4695 and Holley Navarre Fire District will fan out at the Navarre Wal-Mart with boots in hand for this year’s Muscular Dystrophy Association drive on Aug. 29, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday Aug. 30, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Navarre Beach Marine Science Station (NBMSS) Outreach Octobus has arrived on station. The bus will allow members of the NBMSS to bring STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education to groups that may not otherwise be able to visit the station.
The skimmer season is almost at its end. In just about two weeks most of the chicks found on the Navarre Beach Causeway will have migrated away from the popular nesting location for black skimmers and least turns.
“I’m a Southern lady,” Frances Dohn said, then laughed when I asked her if she grew up in the hills of South Carolina; city boy figures all those Carolina places are hill country.
Dozens of children squealed with delight while sliding down giant waterslides at the Midway Fire Department’s annual open house Aug. 16. The fun-filled event has been held for 30 years, but in recent years waterslides and kiddie pools were added to the activities, making it a splashy end-of-summer celebration.
Winds off East Bay gently whisper amid moss-draped oaks near historic Holley Point Cemetery, where a simple, white wood church once stood. In yesteryear the site, which also served as a school, was constantly abuzz with children playing after school and families enjoying Sunday dinner on the grounds. Now the property remains quiet and has been, mostly, forgotten.
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) experienced a major overhaul in 2012 and then again in 2014. Making sense of the changes is no easy task according to a coastal planning specialist with Florida Sea Grant.
