Air Force Maj. Natalie Adams Jolly has come a long way from her days as a student at Holley-Navarre Elementary School, the only elementary school in the Navarre area in the 1970s, to commander of the 42nd Force Support Squadron at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala.
The Panhandle Butterfly House at Navarre Park on U.S. Highway 98 will be open to the public from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. April 19. The grounds have been impeccably groomed, the docents have been trained, and several improvements have been made to the vivarium. All that is needed are the future inhabitants. The first batch of butterflies will be released in the vivarium today, Thursday April 18.
An estimated 650 pets, ranging from Great Danes to guinea pigs, were honored Sunday, April 7, in the annual Blessing of the Pets ceremony at Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church.
The dreaded Indo-Pacific Lionfish have been spotted in local Gulf Islands National Seashore waters, and park officials are exploring the idea to allow capturing by spearfishing, something which has traditionally not been allowed by the National Park Service within park waters other than Biscayne National Park in south Florida.
Santa Rosa County residents are invited to join the Guardian ad Litem Program, its volunteers and community in remembering the abused, abandoned and neglected children who exist in every community at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16, at the South Riverwalk pavilion in Milton.
Treasure hunters from across the region are expected to converge on the Panhandle along the Highway 90 corridor as Flea Across Florida, the state’s longest flea market, comes to Santa Rosa County, April 12-14.
“How unfair!” exclaimed Kim Macarthy, former Main Street Milton president, regarding a local non-profit organization receiving a 25-year lease from the Santa Rosa County Commission for a 5,000-square-foot historic building on Highway 90 in downtown Milton for a rate of only $10 per month and without a request for proposal process.
