Community Archive

Navarre High seniors painted parking spaces Friday afternoon ahead of the upcoming school year.

This is the second consecutive year seniors have been able to customize their parking spots in the student parking lot.

According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the US, except for skin cancer.

Each October, various groups and people promote breast cancer awareness, but breast cancer, as well as other cancers, can develop at any time of the year. Cancer, despite being so widespread, is a deeply personal battle and for Skip and Teresa Orth, their battle has just begun.

Tucked away in rural Santa Rosa County within the Blackwater River Forest sits an operation that has been critical to recovery efforts of the Chipola River Shoal Bass population.

In existence for 80 years, the nearly 600-acre Blackwater Fisheries Research and Development Center in Holt has been at the center of helping to revive a species of fish that was devastated by Hurricane Michael in October of 2018.

A Milton-based group of beekeepers are looking to get the word out on the importance of bees and promote beekeeping. One of these beekeepers is Frank Miller.

Miller is in his fifth year of beekeeping and his first year as president of the Santa Rosa Beekeeping Association.

Olivia Booth has been a member of the Navarre High School Raider Marching Band since entering the school as a freshman.

This upcoming year will be special, not only because she is a senior, but also because she was named band captain at the end of last school year.

Navarre High School alumni hosted two class reunions (2011 and 2012) this summer on Navarre Beach.

On July 28, a band that has never played Tunes By the Dunes will make their Navarre Beach debut. Although Password Reset is new to the local concert series, they have been around since 2009.

Their lead singer, Rafaela O’Reilly, has been around music for practically all her life. O’Reilly, whose stage name is ‘Roxie,” was born and raised in Union City, Indiana.

When Governor Ron DeSantis approved the budget for the upcoming fiscal year, he approved $1.5 million for a new, 7200 square foot fire station and training facility in Holley.

Although the allocation was made during the latest legislative cycle, the Holley-Navarre Fire District has been planning on opening up a fire station in Holley for at least 20 years.

Lieutenant junior grade Jacqueline Thomas, a Navarre native, earned her wings of gold at Naval Air Station (NAS) Whiting Field June 24.

In addition to receiving the coveted wings of gold, Thomas was recognized as a Commodore’s List awardee and recipient of the Daedalian Award.

Every morning, Michael Farrell comes out of his home on the north side of the Santa Rosa Sound to check on and rebait his crab traps that sit underneath his dock.

Over the past few months, he has noticed a significant decline in the amount of blue crab that he has caught.