News Archive

Yard signs urging “Stop City of Gulf Breeze Land Grab” are popping up along quiet streets in this affluent community where such public proclamations are usually in support of police, the Blue Angels or Republican candidates.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has begun updating Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) for coastal communities nationwide and Santa Rosa is no exception.

The Board of County Commissioners chose a new company Thursday, Sept. 22 to manage tourism marketing, advertising and public relations.

Starting Oct. 3, thousands of tons of used glass, paper products, plastics and more from Santa Rosa County will once again be collected curbside, processed and sold to be recycled.

Jack D. Messerschmidt, 36, of Laurel Hill, Florida, was arraigned Monday in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with the production and possession of child pornography. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.

Santa Rosa County Sheriff Wendell Hall is in his fourth year of frying up fish for the fish fry the Holley Navarre Senior Center puts on as a fundraiser.

Draft rule changes were approved to existing venomous reptile regulations at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission earlier this month.

Air Force Special Tactics airmen dedicated military freefall training into the Pensacola Bay to Staff Sgt Forrest Sibley, a combat controller from the local killed in action, Aug. 26, 2015, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on the first anniversary of his death.

There’s a new celebrity fitness trainer in town. If Autumn Navarro’s not a celebrity trainer, she’s only one degree of separation away. Navarro, the newest personal trainer at the Pullum Family YMCA, spent nine months training Georgeanna Johnson last year for ABC’s hit show Extreme Weight Loss with Chris and Heidi Powell.

Saturday, Oct. 1, the Navarre Chamber Small Business Development Committee, along with the Navarre Chamber Women 2 Women Connecting Group, will host the 2nd Annual Navarre Women’s Expo (W.I.S.E.) “Women Inspiring Success Everyday” from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Navarre Conference Center, 8700 Navarre Parkway.  The 2016 Navarre Women’s Expo is being sponsored by Cherie Rice – Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate and Sarah M. Hasty – New York Life Insurance Company.