While students and teachers had a week off from school during spring break, the folks at Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge were hard at work hosting a spring break camp for kids ages 8 to 13. Despite hosting camps before, this was the first time Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge had hosted one during spring break.
The purpose of the camps at Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge are to help educate youth on all things animalia, from biology to ecology to the dangers they face from humans and other animals.
You might have seen them in a viral video on Tik Tok in October or at Navarre First Assembly of God, but wherever the Blended Bugbys go, they are sure to leave an impression.
The Bugbys are a large family, nine in all, and are currently in the midst of a “trade up challenge” to get a new vehicle. They call themselves the Blended Bugbys as several of their children are adopted, including two from Haiti.
Joshua Bugby, a development director for Children In Crisis, is the patriarch of the family. He said adoption has played a larger role in his family’s life.
Flashy suits, dynamic dance routines and music that will get you jumping out of your chair to dance and sing along.
This is The Six Piece Suits, a local panhandle band who cover music such as “rock, pop, soul, Motown and even EDM, if that’s what people want to hear,” said the band’s lead singer and guitarist Kyle Hooks.
People from across the Navarre community gathered at St. Michael’s Brewery Monday, Feb. 27, for a special event, Cookies On Tap, to have fun and raise money for a worthy cause.
The cause that benefited from the event was The Arc Gateway, a 501(c)(3) organization that has been providing services to intellectually and developmentally disabled people in Northwest Florida since 1954.
When most visit a cemetery, it’s to bury or visit a loved one. For those at Holley Point Cemetery Thursday, Feb. 23, they were there to help keep alive the memory of those who had been buried long ago.
They were there as part of a class put on by the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) to help the public learn more about the work that goes into preserving graveyards and maintaining the memory of the decedents interred there. The class is called the cemetery resource protection training (CRPT) workshop.
If you have been on the pier when a sea turtle gets rescued after a run-in with a fish hook or have spent anytime at the Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center, then you may have seen or met Keith Feldman.
Feldman has spent the better part of the past four years volunteering and working with the NBSTCC. He is also a member of the NBSTCC sea turtle stranding team, which is responsible for the rescuing of distressed sea turtles in Santa Rosa County, mostly along Navarre Beach.
For the past 18 years, people from Santa Rosa County and beyond have gathered at the Gulf Coast Kiln Walk Society’s Woodstoke Festival for fun, food and friends, but mostly for pottery. On Saturday, Feb. 18, they came back to celebrate the latest kiln firing, look at the pottery and, in some cases, buy it.
Woodstoke Festival, named as an homage to Woodstock, brings together potters and ceramics artists from across the region with the chance to use some of the high-quality kilns at Holley Hill Pottery (7507 Buckeye Drive in Holley).
The local Navarre sewing group Salt Water Stitchers continued their quest to make quilts for all the school resource officers in the south end of Santa Rosa County.
Last May, they made eight quilts and presented them to the Navarre and Woodlawn Beach schools.
In September 2022, they began to make five more quilts for the school resource officers at the Gulf Breeze schools, Oriole Beach Elementary, and the new officer at Holley Navarre Primary.
The milestone for most people is to make it to 100 years, or a century, old. For Helen Seagrave, she has been there and done that. Sunday, Jan. 29, she turned 103.
Seagrave, who has resided at Navarre Gardens on Highway 87 for just over a year, was born in 1920 in Connecticut, near New London.
