Join Intracoastal Outfitters Saturday, April 22, from 11:00-2:30 at Shoreline Park in Gulf Breeze for Grillin’ in the Breeze!
Attendees will have the opportunity to taste grilled and smoked delicacies, cast their vote for the People’s Choice award, and bid on terrific silent auction items throughout the day.
Navarre’s NJROTC unit came through with another strong performance at Navy Nationals at Naval Air Station Pensacola earlier this month.
The Raider battalion was back at nationals and among the top 24 teams that were selected to compete at the event. There are more than 600 NJROTC units in the country.
Navarre Beach Fire Rescue District is no stranger to assisting other fire departments or districts when they are in need.
In December, Navarre Beach Fire gave Munson Volunteer Fire Department some of their thermal imaging equipment and NBFRD always assists Holley Navarre Fire District and Midway Fire District on calls. On Monday, April 17, Navarre Beach Fire was able to help an out-of-state volunteer fire department get a vehicle they could have never afforded on their own.
Military families are no stranger to homecomings but for one family in Northwest Florida, they had a homecoming 73 years in the making.
On April 4, one family finally got the opportunity to say hello and goodbye to a Korean War veteran who had been missing since 1950. Private First Class Ithiel Whatley, of Pensacola, had been reported missing July 12, 1950, in the vicinity of Choci’won in present day South Korea. He was 19 at the time.
Dwayne Clark Jr. raised his arms up in celebration as Nathan Link put up a shot and made a basket.
The smile on the face of everyone on the court, including Link, as well as the roar of the crowd said it all in a unified basketball game between Navarre and Gulf Breeze two weeks ago.
While Bands on the Blackwater played Friday, March 31, another event in downtown Milton was happening.
At the historic Imogene Theatre, a group of local authors gathered to share their books and their experiences with those who stopped into Santa Rosa County Historical Society’s A Night Without Shakespeare.
Northwest Florida is rich in history, but one part of its history has been getting more attention from historians in recent years.
In September 2021, the Pensacola Pass was recognized as an Underground Railroad site by the National Park Service. The following year, in November, Fort Pickens attained the same status. Both sites are part of NPS’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, which consists of 700 listings in 39 states, plus Washington D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
A longtime Navarre Beach concert series is facing an unlikely future.
During the Tourist Development Council’s recent budget workshop, the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce did not submit a sponsorship request for the Tunes by the Dunes concert series for the upcoming fiscal year.
Rhoda Bargas spent the whole week in bed. Depression’s vicious grip kept her there.
It sapped the Navarre resident of the excitement she should have been feeling with the Air Force Wounded Warrior Trials in Las Vegas looming on the horizon.
