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 […]
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
















