Community Archive

New leaders were selected last week for the fire districts’ executive boards.

Santa Rosa County in September applied for a $150,000 state grant to help fund improvements in Navarre Park, which would include development of permanent restrooms. Based on the grant application and its scoring system, the local application placed 80 out of 166 applications, which may be too far down the list to receive funding.

Even bright sunshine couldn’t keep area residents from heading inside the Days Inn Navarre Conference Center March 8 for the 2014 Navarre Home Show. The event featured more than 40 vendors showing highlighting their products and services for attendees.

The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in Florida increased a penny last week and now stands at $3.46, just below the national average price of $3.49. When compared with the average price in Florida a year ago, motorists are saving 0.32 cents per gallon.

It’s a long way from being a young American girl in Mill Hall, Pa., to becoming a “proper Spanish lady” in the Dominican Republic, but Mary Marrero Wallen did it.

Don Richards, president of the United Peninsula Association, announced that he would be resigning from his position at a meeting Feb. 25 at Tiger Point Golf Club.

District 4 Santa Rosa County Commissioner Jim Melvin discussed the recent courthouse location selection at a Santa Rosa Federated Republican Women (SRFRW) luncheon Feb. 25 at The Club at Hidden Creek.

Setting our clocks forward an hour before we go to bed Saturday night for Daylight Savings Time doesn’t have to just be a reminder of the hour of sleep we will lose. Joe Early, fire inspector with the Holley-Navarre Fire District, wants to remind residents that springing forward is also a good time to change the batteries in smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.

Swarms of revelers lined Stewart Street in Milton Feb. 27 in hopes of catching beads and Moon Pies. Main Street Milton, a downtown revitalization organization, hosted their popular annual Mardi Gras parade.

Santa Rosa County Commissioners voted Feb. 27 to permanently close two of the county’s 23 recycle drop-off sites. The Tiger Point Park Road and Five Points/Chumuckla Highway recycling drop off sites will permanently close March 14 due to health and safety risks resulting from illegal dumping.