Wee Market located in the Publix shopping center in Navarre is offering kids of all ages a unique opportunity to send a letter to Santa this holiday season. The pint-sized mailbox is located just inside the front door of the shop and children can drop their letters into the box.
After attending more than 400 meetings of the Santa Rosa County Commission and working as its chief executive officer since 1995, Hunter Walker was honored at his retirement ceremony last week.
During the Dec. 8 budget meeting of the Holley-Navarre Water System (HNWS) Board, one thing caught the board members by complete surprise: the benefits package purchased for the employees of the water department, specifically health insurance.
Pen Air Federal Credit Union’s Director of Marketing Pam Hatt came up with a fun way for the bank’s locations to highlight one of their company’s core values: communerosity: the coming together of community and generosity. Each of their 15 locations plus some of the office staff have decorated a wreath in the theme of a nonprofit organization. They are running a Facebook contest with the wreaths and the organization’s wreath that gets the most votes will win $2,000. The contest urges the community to “Give a Click” and vote for their favorite organization’s wreath.
When the Herrera family pulled into the driveway of their Navarre home late Monday afternoon, they were greeted by a surprise that brightened their holiday spirits.
The area of South Santa Rosa County that we call Navarre currently considers the surveying and platting of Guy H. Wyman in 1925 as our beginnings. Navarre Press has further traced one of its earlier forms of existence to a settlement called Eagan.
Patrick Shea emigrated from Ireland when he was just 13 years old. The year was 1851 when he made is way on shore in New York, courtesy of the ship Edw O Brien which departed from Liverpool, England.
Kamber Anderson won’t get a chance to play softball this season for Pensacola State College. A back injury has sidelined the former Navarre standout for the year.
The Santa Rosa County Legislative Delegation consisting of Sen. Greg Evers, and Reps. Doug Broxson and Mike Hill, will conduct a special public hearing regarding the recent controversy about the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in classrooms.
