Community Archive

For people with special needs, sports and recreational opportunities are few and far between.

Sure there is the Special Olympics, but the vast majority of those with special needs will never get to participate in them. That’s where one local organization comes in.

The Pensacola Navy League recently announced that a special visitor would be coming to the Emerald Coast during the first weekend in June.

America’s Tall Ship, the USCGC Barque Eagle will moor downtown Pensacola at Plaza De Luna from Thursday, June 2 to Sunday, June 5.

The 32nd annual Gulf Breeze Sertoma Family Fishing Rodeo is slated for Saturday and Sunday from Noon until 5 p.m. at South Shoreline Park in Gulf Breeze.

Ariana Rice moved from Georgia to Florida when she was younger, and because she was now in a military area, her mindset on what the future held for her soon changed.

Rice joined the Navarre Navy Junior ROTC program in high school and that propelled her in a direction she never imagined her life would go.

The Navarre Garden Club has been hosting flower shows since the mid-1970s. The shows were started by Martha Pullum, the wife of the late Bill Pullum, in 1975. Martha was the first Flower Show Chair of the Navarre Garden Club.

A local animal outreach, A HOPE, works toward serving the animals in Santa Rosa County.

The focus of A HOPE, which stands for Animal Health Outreach Prevention Education, is to spay, neuter and vaccinate county animals at an affordable rate, whether that be for stray community cats or beloved family dogs.

An adult loggerhead sea turtle washed on shore May 14 by the artificial reef in the Navarre Beach Marine Park and the Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center (NBSTCC) stranding team was notified right away.

The Northwest Florida region has a rich colonial history with the Spanish, French, and British all having occupied parts of the area before the United States even began.

There has been plenty studied and written about the colonial period of this region and a new book seeks to pull all that research together and give proper context to the Spanish era, specifically from 1698 to 1763.

Reece Rodman was the recipient of the Navarre Beach Chamber Foundation’s Keifer Huhman Memorial Scholarship at the Navarre Navy Junior ROTC Awards night on May 4.

Three times a year, Milton hosts a gun show.

Rather, Billy Rogers hosts a gun show at the Santa Rosa County Auditorium sponsored by his business, Rogers Dozer Service. The next of which will be June 4 and 5.