Community Archive

When school is out for summer, it’s only natural for students to hit the beach. You just wouldn’t expect them to learn anything from it.

Santa Rosa County Commissioners Ray Eddington and Kerry Smith have recently achieved designations for a commissioner leadership program. Eddington, who represents District 4 (Holley, Navarre, and Navarre Beach), received the Advanced County Commissioner Level I designation.

Rainy weather couldn’t stop the kickoff to Operation Dry Water at U.S. Coast Guard Station Destin on Wednesday, July 3. Operation Dry Water, started in 2009, is a national initiative to increase awareness and enforce Boating Under the Influence laws. Each Fourth of July weekend, a heightened enforcement campaign is held. The goal of Operation Dry Water is to reduce the number of alcohol and drug-related boating incidents and fatalities.

A Navarre area student recently had the opportunity to attend a national STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) conference in Miami.

Have yourself a merry little summer! On Saturday, July 13, Navarre Park will play host to “Christmas in July Movie Night,” starting at 8 p.m. The movie night is a free event.

Operation Dry Water weekend takes place July 4 to 6. The national weekend of Boating Under the Influence detection and enforcement is aimed at reducing the number of alcohol- and drug-related boating incidents and fatalities. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and other participating law enforcement agencies will work together to make Florida waterways safer by identifying and removing dangerous or impaired vessel operators.

Holley Navarre Primary School has a new principal. Audrey Goodwin, who has spent the past 25 years educating students in various roles in northwest Florida, was appointed to principal of Holley Navarre Primary by the Santa Rosa County School Board on June 13.

A new program from the Navarre Beach Lifeguards will bring educational opportunities to local and visiting beachgoers.   The new program, known as the B.E.A.C.H series, will take place in four sessions over four weeks and feature beach safety lessons and water skills activities for participants.

Decisions by the Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners on the fees charged for use of county parks and recreational facilities have been postponed to the second set of meetings in January due to concerns of how these fees would affect Navarre community events

The University of West Florida celebrated the planting of a “Moon Tree” seedling that flew around the moon on NASA’s Artemis 1 mission in 2022. UWF was selected from hundreds of organizations that applied to receive a seedling.