News Archive

If you missed District 4 Commissioner Dave Piech’s monthly Zoom meeting, here are some of the hot topics he covered:

Elijah Shelton had a plan to rob the Synovus Bank on Navarre Parkway last week, but it turns out it wasn’t executed too well, according to Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson.

Employees aren’t allowed to officially tell you anything inside the store, but the sign on the front window says it all: Winn-Dixie in Navarre is reopening this month.

“Grand Opening 5/26/2021” reads a sign posted.

A 33-year-old man was arrested after the vehicle he was driving struck a child who got out of the backseat of another car and darted across Gulf Boulevard. The accident happened about 7 p.m. Saturday on Navarre Beach.

Ryan Morgan of Fort Lauderdale was charged with driving without a valid license. According to a Florida Highway Patrol media release, Morgan was driving westbound when the 10-year-old boy got out of another vehicle and ran across the road. The Pace boy, who first responders said has autism, was critically injured but expected to recover, the release said. The road was dark and the shoulder was limited, the report said. Morgan stopped immediately after the crash.

Florida Department of Transportation officials have once again suspended tolls on the Garcon Point Bridge, which is being used as a detour during the outage of the Pensacola Bay Bridge. Officials have been suspending the tolls for a month at a time. Local officials have asked that the tolls remain suspended until the Pensacola bridge is brought back to a four-lane capacity. It is hoped that two lanes of the bridge will reopen the week of May 31.

A young autistic boy was struck by a car in the 8000 block of Gulf Boulevard on Navarre Beach Saturday evening and knocked under another vehicle parked on the side of the road, according to Chief Danny Fureigh of Navarre Beach Fire Rescue. The impact knocked the boy unconscious but by the time firefighters arrived, he was alert. The accident happened at about 7 p.m. He was flown to a trauma center by medical helicopter.

Rear Admiral George D. Murray, commandant of Pensacola Naval Air Training center, invited Santa Rosa County citizens to attend the commissioning of its newest air station, Whiting Field, July 16 in a July 10, 1943, press release.

A sinkhole added to traffic woes for drivers navigating Tiger Point Boulevard Friday afternoon.

District 5 Commissioner Colten Wright, who was the first official on scene, said that a storm drain failed causing a sinkhole in both travel lanes and on the right of way.

A Navarre teen who turned 18 while in custody has been charged more than six months after an incident at a Pace fishing pier led to the death of her 16-year-old accomplice.

A pair of accidents, one fatal, caused massive traffic congestion Friday afternoon in the Garcon Point area Friday.

The first happened about 3 p.m. on Garcon Point Road near Burlwood Drive.