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.
For those who have visited Gulf Islands National Seashore recently, you might have noticed something peculiar resting on the sand. A sailboat.
The site where the boat rests, which is near beach access 33-A, has become a favorite for local photographers but for one man, the owner, it has been a headache.
The nonprofit Gulf Coast Kiln Walk Society is getting ready to host the 18th annual Woodstoke Festival at Holley Hill Pottery, located at 7507 Buckeye Drive in Navarre.
Woodstoke is a free public event that highlights the work of artists in the field of woodfired pottery and ceramics. It will take place Feb. 18.
At a ceremony held Sunday, Feb. 5, American Legion Post 382 honored four men who made the ultimate sacrifice 80 years ago. Alexander Goode, George L. Fox, John P. Washington, and Clark V. Poling, known collectively as the “Four Chaplains,” died when their transport ship, the USAT Dorchester, sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.
On Feb. 3, 1943, the Dorchester was headed to Greenland when it was struck by a torpedo from a German U-boat. The ship carried 902 servicemen, merchant seaman and civilian workers. With the ship hit, Goode, Fox, Washington and Poling all leaped into action to help their comrades.
On New Year’s Day, local 501(c)3 organization Pirates on the Panhandle hosted their fifth Pirate Plunge on Navarre Beach by the fishing pier, where participants ran into the cold Gulf of Mexico.
There appears to be a growing trend of students being forced into JROTC programs at high schools across the country.
Data collected from more than 200 public records, according to The New York Times, shows that dozens of schools have made the program mandatory.
Saturday, Jan. 21, brought lots of smiles and joy for Bettie Appleberg.
Her friends and church family were throwing a surprise party at Navarre United Methodist Church in honor of her 95th birthday, which was on Jan. 20.
Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office has gone to the dogs! Or, at least, they are very excited about telling the community about them. The law enforcement agency recently started an initiative to reach out to the community and positively engage them in what the K9 unit does. As a part of that initiative, the Sheriff’s Office has created a special set of trading cards that highlight the various K9s in the unit.
