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The ribbon cutting for the Benny Russell Park expansion was postponed due to inclement weather. It has been rescheduled for July 7 at 9 a.m.

Santa Rosa County will hold a ribbon-cutting for the Benny Russell Park expansion on Tuesday, July 6 at 9 a.m. The improvements included a splash pad with restroom, new playground for ages 5 through 12, fitness fun-zone court, multi-purpose trail, multi-purpose sports field, and picnic pavilions.

Fireworks and live music will mark the Fourth of July celebration Navarre Beach this year, but the children’s parade will not take place.

In the past, the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce has held a non-motorized children’s parade in the early evening before other events begin.

Did you know that Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge has a hawk that helps teach summer camp?

And a raccoon teacher, too?

A couple of hundred people came out to Navarre Beach Tuesday night and put their lawn chairs in the sand to watch “Jaws” for the first beach movie night of the season.

Windjammers on the Pier hosted the movie night June 15, and owners Ken and Tamara Fountain plan to have many more this summer.

“I think we’re going to try to do it every Tuesday, at least for the next couple of months for summer,” Ken said.

Carl Bowers has never had issues with his health.

So when the Pace firefighter received a diagnosis of angiosarcoma, a rare form of cancer that affects just 1-2% of the population, it came as a shock to both Carl and his wife, Shannon.

An Eglin Air Force Base captain was recognized Thursday for saving the life of a neighbor’s tiny baby who had stopped breathing.

Christopher A. Mavron and his wife, Pilar, were about to leave their Navarre home to head to a softball practice on the afternoon of May 23 when a neighbor ran out of her house calling for help.