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Just over 100 people showed up Friday night at a “Reclaim Santa Rosa” rally at Southern Raceway featuring – among other speakers – District 3 Commissioner James Calkins.

Evacuees from Hurricane Ida have helped fill Navarre beds and the Tourist Development Office asked lodging providers late Monday to share information about any openings.

Gulf Islands National Seashore will reopen J. Earle Bowden Way/Highway 399 in a limited capacity, Sept. 2, 2020. The road is open to passenger vehicles and remains temporarily closed to oversized vehicles due to damages from Hurricane Sally.

Updated: The Coast Guard ended its search Thursday for a 14-year-old boy who was last seen swimming at Henderson Beach State Park in Destin.

The Santa Rosa County School District’s daily COVID-19 summary report shows that Navarre High School has the most exposure cases and the most positive cases in the district. NHS had a total of 218 exposure cases and 96 positivity cases.

It’s 4:30 p.m. on a Wednesday and New York Pizza District (NYPD) manager and part-owner Derek Matusz has received three call outs in the last hour from employees saying they wouldn’t be able to come to work today.

An 82-year-old Pace woman was killed Wednesday morning after the driver of the car she was riding in pulled out in front of another vehicle.

Bed tax collections for Santa Rosa County neared the $1 million mark for the first time in July, totaling $951.059, according to information released this week.

On Aug. 31, Gulf Power had a transformer struck by lightning causing a fire that ended up breaking off the top of the transformer pole.

Brigitte Brahms moved to Navarre in 1994. She was active-duty Air Force from 1991-2001 and has worked as a civilian on base since 2003. She is currently the Nurse Manager of Pediatrics at Hurlburt Field.

Her husband, Keith, is a pilot for Delta Airlines. She has two children, Nick and Olivia, who are graduates of Navarre High. Nick plays football for the Auburn Tigers.