Community Archive

Only the sound of a bird chirping and the hum of a lone car driving by down the road on a sun-splashed morning broke through the moment of silence during the flag ceremony Navarre High School Navy Junior ROTC unit does each year to commemorate the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Many Santa Rosa property owners will have to change or upgrade their flood insurance thanks to updates to the county’s flood mitigation maps.

Santa Rosa County residents won’t have to pay higher ad valorem taxes because they rejected the referendum to fund a new county courthouse in downtown Milton with a temporary sales tax increase.

After hearing three 30-plus minutes of presentations Sept. 1, the Santa Rosa County Tourism Development Board ranked advertising and marketing company Davis, South, Barnett and Patrick Public Relations and Advertising (DSBP) as their top pick for managing marketing of the county’s tourism for the next three years.

Despite dwindling attendance along the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Hermine, Navarre Beach bed-tax collectors reported maxed out occupancy for the three-day Labor Day weekend.

The Gulf Breeze Zoo welcomed a tall new family member Aug. 2 with the birth of baby reticulated giraffe Gibson bringing the zoo’s giraffe herd to four members.

A few people late to the scene wondered if perhaps there was a fire or some other serious emergency going on at Beach Colony East on Navarre Beach Wednesday morning.

A brightly painted sea turtle statue commissioned by the Santa Rosa County Tourism Development Office arrived Tuesday, Aug. 23, at the Navarre Visitor Information Center.

Awareness.

Mutual respect.

Communication.

These little piggies need to find a new home.