Apr 13, 2021
Highway 98 lights inch closer to ideal synchronization
Santa Rosa County officials got the green light but not the funding last week to upgrade the traffic lights at the intersections of U.S. Highway 98 and Navarre Beach Causeway and U.S. 98 and State Road 87.
Apr 13, 2021
Retention wall fails, sends cascade of red clay into Santa Rosa Sound
The contractor for a new development on the Santa Rosa Sound has been fined for allowing an illegal discharge into the waterway. Red clay colored the waterway along the shoreline after a retaining wall apparently was breached.
Apr 13, 2021
Second Publix likely in Navarre’s future
Months after rumors of a new Publix coming to Navarre first leaked out, county officials say a 48,000-square-foot store is on its way.
Apr 13, 2021
Coast Guard, Good Samaritans rescue 6 from capsized vessel
The Coast Guard and multiple good Samaritan vessels rescued six people from a capsized commercial vessel Tuesday and are searching for more 8 miles south of Port Fourchon.
Apr 12, 2021
Pensacola named 2021 ‘Great American Defense Community’
The NAS Pensacola and the NAS Whiting Field community, home to Naval Station Pensacola and Naval Air Station Whiting Field, is one of five across the country named to the 2021 Class of Great American Defense Communities, the Association of Defense Communities (ADC) announced in conjunction with USAA, the program’s official sponsor.
Apr 12, 2021
And then there were three … emergency rooms in Navarre
The new Ascension Sacred Heart ER in Navarre held a ribbon-cutting Monday and will open to patients Tuesday, April 13 at 7 a.m., providing 24-hour emergency care to all ages.
Navarre ER, associated with Fort Walton Beach Medical Center, which held a ribbon cutting April 1, announced Monday that it would open at the same time.
That brings the total of emergency rooms in Navarre to three. Baptist Hospital opened theirs in the fall.
Apr 12, 2021
Planning for Navarre Aldi takes big step forward
Less than two months after breaking ground on a distribution center in Alabama, Aldi has submitted plans for the construction of a Navarre store.
Apr 12, 2021
Piech: ‘State of the art Publix concept’ heading to Navarre
Santa Rosa County officials are expecting to respond this week to a site plan for a development that would bring a new Publix as well as other retail shops to a large parcel along U.S. Highway 98 on the eastern edge of the county.
Apr 11, 2021
Coast Guard Cutter arrives at new Pensacola homeport
The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Walnut arrived at the cutter’s new homeport in Pensacola last week after an extensive dry-dock period.
Apr 10, 2021
TDC meetings moving back to south end
After a year of holding its monthly meetings in Milton, the Tourist Development Council unanimously agreed to move those meetings back to the Tiger Point Community Center beginning in May.