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Feb 12, 2024

Community braves rain for 19th annual Woodstoke Festival

The Gulf Coast Kiln Walk Society (GCKWC) celebrated the 19th annual Woodstoke Festival at Holley Hill Pottery this Saturday, Feb. 10. Despite the rainy weather, people came out to celebrate all things pottery and take a gander at local, regional and national potters’ newest creations.
Feb 9, 2024

Santa Rosa teen named vice chair of statewide high school Republican group

Riley Perantoni, a Gulf Breeze teenager, has made a name for himself at local government and school board meetings in Santa Rosa County. While his focus in many meetings has been to speak out about the need to address fentanyl use and improve drug education, he has also steered in the direction of politics.
Feb 8, 2024
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Local vet organizes community cleanup day

You can’t spell community without unity, and for Joe Cooper, a retired Air National Guardsman, that’s what he is all about. Cooper has called Navarre home for the past year and is the organizer of the 2024 Spring Clean-up and Navarre Citizen’s Social, which will be held Saturday, Feb. 10, starting at 10:30 a.m.
Feb 7, 2024

Arc of Emerald Coast receives $25,000 from Fort Walton Beach Rotary

The Arc of the Emerald Coast announced that on Wednesday, Jan. 31, it received a generous donation of $25,000 from the Fort Walton Beach Rotary. The funds were raised at the North Florida Pickleball Brawl, the Rotary’s annual pickleball tournament.
Feb 6, 2024

Santa Rosa All County Band hits right note in Pace

The sound of rain couldn’t drown out the sound of Santa Rosa’s All County Band Saturday, Jan. 27.

In spite of the gloomy weather, parents, school district employees and the community packed Pace Assembly of God to hear both middle school and high school students perform a variety of tunes from classics such as the Wizard of Oz and Star Wars to more recent compositions such as Tarantella by Carol Brittin Chambers.

Feb 5, 2024

New northwest Florida book festival to be held March 23

Books By the Bay, a new outdoor book festival sponsored by nonprofit Emerald Coast Writers, will feature more than 50 bestselling, international, national, and regional authors including the popular author-illustrator John Patrick Green of the InvestiGATORS series.
Feb 3, 2024

And the Krewe of Jesters Mardi Gras parade winners are

The 38th Annual Navarre Krewe of Jesters Mardi Gras parade winners have been announced!
Feb 2, 2024

Gulf Breeze Zoo’s ‘Kenya’ predicts an early spring and a Chiefs Super Bowl win on Giraffe Day

An excited crowd gathered Friday morning around Kenya, a 16-year-old reticulated giraffe resident at Gulf Breeze Zoo, to watch her predict the future.

Feb. 2, or Groundhog Day as it’s called everywhere else, will now be referred to as Giraffe Day in Santa Rosa County, according to county commissioner Colton Wright who read an official declaration at the celebration Friday morning.

Feb 2, 2024

FPL awards $200K in grants to help 28 nonprofits across Northwest Florida 

Consider the variety of needs in our community: beds for children who are sleeping on floors. food, clothing and care for at-risk foster children, STEM and mentoring programs to spark brighter lives for children and teens, marine and wildlife conservation and protection programs.  
Feb 1, 2024

Fired up!

On Feb. 10, ceramicists, pottery enthusiasts and community members will gather at Holley Hill Pottery for the 19th edition of Woodstoke Festival. The festival, named in homage to Woodstock, is organized by Brenda Stokes of Holley Hill Pottery and the Gulf Coast Kiln Walk Society.
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