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Holley-Navarre house fire
Apr 14, 2021

Fire heavily damages home, displaces local family

The Holley-Navarre Fire District responded to an early morning Wednesday in the 8900 block of Orlando Avenue.

The call came in about 3 a.m., with the caller advising that the house was filled with smoke and the fire was coming from the area of a gas grill on the lanai in the rear of the residence. Everyone was out of the house, the caller said.

Apr 14, 2021

Zoning board largely absent, meeting adjourned before doing business

The absence of more than half of the zoning board at its April 8 monthly meeting left more than a dozen requests tabled. Only four members attended the regularly scheduled meeting, forcing the meeting to be adjourned before business could be conducted. At least five members of the 10-member board must be present to vote […]
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.
Coast Guard rescue
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.
ascension sacred heart er
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.

Aldis dirt pile
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.
Navarre Publix
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.
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