Jan 7, 2016
Maintaining the Force
Hurlburt Field, Fla., — As the sun sets over the flight line and most units have gone home for the night, maintenance airmen are attending roll call and issued their tools before making their way out to aircraft to begin their shift.
Jan 7, 2016
Start fresh and healthy
Late-night dinners; skipped breakfasts; hand in the candy jar. Maybe you gave your healthful habits a vacation. That’s pretty typical behavior this time of the year, and now your diet is suffering from a holiday hangover.
Jan 7, 2016
Up and At ‘em
Early risers have a more positive outlook on life and are more likely to succeed in their careers because they tend to be more proactive, university studies have found. However, night owls may be more alert 10 hours after awakening, compared to early birds, whose energy fades.
Jan 7, 2016
Tourism leaders seek delay in beach dredging
The cheapest price isn’t the best deal on the $15 million dredging project to renourish Navarre Beach this spring, area tourism leaders assert.
Jan 7, 2016
County seeks lease fees uncollected for years
The owners of condominium units at the Sugar Dunes complex in Navarre Beach have hired an attorney to investigate why the lease fees they have been paying for years aren’t being been received by Santa Rosa County officials.
Jan 7, 2016
Speed limit change
The Florida Department of Transportation is changing the speed limit on a small stretch of State Road 87 beginning at U.S. Highway 98 to just north of Montalban Street in Navarre. The change will be from the current 45 mph to 40 mph beginning Jan. 7.
Jan 7, 2016
Recovery effort for missing swimmer ends
Every four hours members the Navarre Beach Fire Department patrolled the beach from the military property westward to Opal Beach in hope of recovering the body of swimmer Christopher Beal who went missing on Tuesday, Dec. 29. Danny Fureigh of NBFD says that it was the roughest and highest surf Navarre Beach has had in a while when Beal was lost.
Jan 7, 2016
More oversight for Fairpoint as water prices rise
Questions about accounting and certain employee expenses are drawing more oversight of Fairpoint Regional Utility System, a collective that is mutually owned by four area water companies.
Jan 7, 2016
House party on Beleza leads to arrest
Bradley Savage, age 25 of Navarre, was arrested for Battery on a law enforcement officer and Resisting an officer with violence during a house party investigation on Jan. 2.
Dec 31, 2015
2015 Year in Review
Penguin Plunge draws large crowd
More than 400 people celebrated New Year’s Day by diving into the chilly water of Santa Rosa Sound.