Santa Rosa County officials are planning two public meetings to aid revision of the county’s local mitigation strategy plan, which is updated every five years. The meetings will also serve to revise the county’s flood mitigation plan.
Police were called March 25 the Gulf Breeze Post Office in reference to a suspicious package. A K-9 unit alerted on the package, which contained roughly 48 pounds of marijuana.
The Navarre Chop House, 8651 Navarre Parkway, closed its doors this week after less than a year in business. Owner Dave Reeves left a message with the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce that he made the “hard decision to close the business for good,” according to chamber Executive Director Tony Alexander.
Following the weekend shooting of seven people at a spring break house party, Bay County commissioners have banned beach drinking in county-controlled sections of Panama City Beach for the duration of spring break.
A Navarre woman was arrested March 27 on a charge of animal cruelty after police found one dead hamster and a number of animals living in squalor at a mobile home on the 8200 block of Lucena Street.
Santa Rosa County Commissioner Bob Cole March 26 added a discussion to the board’s agenda after a stalled train blocked access to Santa Rosa County Jail for six hours the night before.
During peak summer tourism months, hundreds of thousands of gallons of effluent is discharged daily into Santa Rosa Sound from the Navarre Beach Utilities treatment plant. Daryl Lynchard, president of Holley-Navarre Water System (HNWS), has a plan to stop it.
Warm weather has arrived in Navarre, and with temperatures heating up outside, it’s important to remember that a hot car is no place for your four-legged friends.
