News Archive

New pier potty close to completion

The Navarre Beach Fishing Pier’s new restroom facilities are ready for installation.

Navarre’s extensive reef system expands

Deployment of new reef modules got underway Jan. 5 morning at three different sites off the shore of Navarre Beach.

Connected again, key connector roads partially repaired

The new year started with the south end of Santa Rosa County partially disconnected from its neighbors to the west.

After a lifetime of hard living, a homeless local man who loved Navarre has died.

Known by some as Billy the Beach Bum, Billy James Joseph Price was 41 when his body was found Dec. 20 in his campsite at Pensacola’s Graffiti Bridge.

Two weeks before Christmas, a moving truck is parked in the driveway of a home in a small neighborhood just outside of Holley by the Sea. A “for sale” sign swings in the front yard.

The young man who answers the door explains they are moving out, rather than moving in. It was easy selling the home, he says.

Just in time for the holidays, readers helped Navarre Press reach its goal of helping one Santa Rosa County veteran get a Healing Paws for Warriors dog in 2022.

The dogs, which are mostly rescues, are trained to support veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury or other emotional and mental trauma.

Looking for a way to help out the local animal population this holiday season? Consider donating to Project Hallelujah, an initiative to get a growing population of feral cats in Pace neutered or spayed.

“The Project Hallelujah cats are so overpopulated that each new litter is sick and dying,” said a press release from A HOPE, which has stepped in to help the caregivers, who have been trying to control the population by trapping the animals, neutering them and returning them to live out their natural lives.