During a press conference earlier this month, Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson said it felt as though there had been more homicides than usual in 2025. His comments came on the heels of the discovery of Danika Troy, a 14-year-old girl who was found murdered in Pace.
While ornaments, presents and holiday treats are fun parts of Christmas, Navarre First Assembly of God wants to remind people of the reason for the season.
The church, located at the corner of Navarre Parkway and Whispering Pines Boulevard, held a live nativity drive-thru Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12-13.
Navarre United Methodist Church held a Christmas musical performance Sunday, Dec. 7, featuring over two dozen children from the church’s youth ministries.
A new law in Florida bans drivers from having “license plate obscuring devices.”
Passed during the 2025 Legislative Session under HB 253, the new law increases the penalty for knowingly altering a motor vehicle registration certificate, license plate, temporary license plate, mobile home sticker, validation sticker or obscuring a license plate from a noncriminal traffic infraction to a second-degree misdemeanor.
Col. Mark Hamilton, who is the commander of the 1st Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, stopped by Santa Rosa County school board Dec. 11 to celebrate the district’s purple star designation.
Kadie Moretz has been named assistant principal at Navarre High School. The appointment was announced and approved at the Santa Rosa County School Board’s Dec. 11 meeting.
Around 20 years ago, Karen Naquin and her family relocated from New Orleans to the Emerald Coast following Hurricane Katrina.
“We did lose everything except for holiday decorations, which were in the attic,” Naquin said. “We came here with what we had evacuated with and our holiday decorations.”
