The Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce Military Hometown Picnic is from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. this Saturday. All active duty, retired and reserve military members are welcome to join in the fun, food and festivities at Navarre Park where they will enjoy a fun family picnic with a lot of activities for the children.
Are you tired of the Santa Rosa County traffic jams and overcrowded schools? According to county ordinance, you shouldn’t be suffering through these and other serious problems caused by lack of infrastructure. The Santa Rosa County Comprehensive Plan includes Article 5, which specifies that infrastructure is to be in place before development is completed. It’s called “concurrency,” which means that adequate roads and schools should already be built and functioning now:
The National Day of Prayer was established in 1952 when President Harry Truman signed a bill into law saying that the president should declare one day a year a National Day of Prayer.
All the signs of the season are here! The sun is shining, temperatures are warm, cobia are running and the nesting shorebirds are back. I know everyone complains about slowing down across the causeway for them, but we do it for good reason. The black skimmers are a threatened species of bird and our shorelines are one of the largest nesting habitats in the region. So, from now until October, slow down for the safety of the chicks. You can read more about this on the Navarre Beach page (1D).
Admit it. You laughed when Virginia got hammered by UMBC – that stands for University of Maryland Baltimore County for those scoring at home – in the opening round of last year’s NCAA tournament.
Back in the mid-1970s, I had an after-school job driving a delivery van for a small furniture store in my hometown. One of my co-workers was a man named Cliff, a conservative Christian. Since I was not yet one myself, I found Cliff to be a really, nice guy with some odd ideas.
There were a lot of events over the weekend and more this coming weekend. Please check out all the events by looking at our local happenings page and the display ads including the Crawfish Festival on Pensacola Beach
