Santa Rosa County District 4 commissioner Dave Piech is putting forth a plan to fellow commissioners Monday at the committee meeting to put 545 acres of natural land in Navarre into conservation in perpetuity. Two of the three parcels back up to the Eglin reservation, providing a buffer from the military base and the third backs up to the Navarre soccer complex.
At 10:43 a.m. on March 15, the Holley-Navarre Fire District was alerted for a residential structure fire in the 2200 block of Jeannie St. The dispatch center advised they had received a 911 call from a neighbor one street over, reporting smoke coming from a house on Jeannie Street.
A variance request for a dune walkover on Navarre Beach left the zoning board members split on what to do before narrowly approving the accessory structure on March 10.
Spring is in the air and people are starting to go back into the water.
With the increased numbers of beachgoers, the potential for drowning and other risks increases. It is around this time every year that the Navarre Beach Lifeguards begin to make their full presence known.
