Back to school is rapidly approaching, and the 35th Annual National Night Out, Aug. 7, aims to help Santa Rosa County’s youngest residents prepare for the coming school year.
To improve logistics and safety on its test range, Eglin Air Force Base has outsourced finding solutions to a team of undergraduates at the University of West Florida.
When the final school bell of the year rings, students on free and reduced-price lunch in Santa Rosa County are no longer guaranteed a meal at their school each day. But thanks to the Summer Break Spot meal program, these students still have a place to pick up a free lunch.
Navarre’s struggling military and veteran families have access to a new resource for food free of charge every third Friday and Saturday of the month in addition to the programs offered by local military bases.
Mark and Janet Pokroy, along with Jim Russell, are playing a game of shuffleboard on a summer afternoon at the Holley Navarre Senior Center. A few others stop by as the day progresses.
Children of various ages in motocross gear accompanied dozens of adults who crowded into the Santa Rosa County Commission meeting hall the night of July 12 for the monthly Zoning Board meeting.
Charlene Orsi became a teacher at Holley Navarre Intermediate School in 2014 after she and her family moved to Navarre. She was the mother of triplets–Catherine, Cadence and Patricia–and a fourth daughter, Adrianna. They came to the area after Orsi’s husband, Robert, was stationed at Hurlburt Field.
Stacy McLaughlin will tell you all about her father, Jim Holland, a man she considers to be super intelligent. She’ll tell you how he used to do crossword puzzles, how he loved to read, that he was handy and had the ability to fix almost anything.
