Beginning Monday, Nov. 9, Laredo Street will be closed between Presidio Street and Granada Street for work, including ditch regrading, as part of the Laredo Street sidewalk project.

The closure is expected to remain in place through Friday, November 13, weather permitting. Residents will still have access to their homes during the closure.

Dean Light, the commissioner-elect for Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners District 4, will be sworn in Nov. 17 at a meeting in Milton.

Light was elected in August, following a primary matchup with incumbent Ray Eddington. Eddington will finish out his term this month.

Navarre Beach lifeguards went to work in early March and ended their season Oct. 31. For the eighth year in a row, there was not a single drowning.

The 2026 season saw a beach attendance of 2,498,767 people. According to Navarre Beach Lifeguards, preventive actions taken amounted to 2,296,453. Lifeguards also responded to 728 minor medical incidents and 82 major medical incidents.

Navarre United Methodist Church held one of its largest trunk or treat events in recent memory Wednesday, Oct. 28. According to Christine Gersic, children’s ministry director, the event brought out more than 300 people and featured 38 participating vehicles.

For Holley-Navarre Middle School’s teacher of the year, teaching is a family tradition.

Katie Fein, the school’s physical education teacher, is the daughter of former Gulf Breeze PE coach Tom Aldridge and Gulf Breeze Elementary ESE/Gifted teacher Kim Coley. A University of West Florida graduate, Fein has been teaching for 10 years. Eight of those years have come at HNMS.

The long-abandoned Summerhouse Restaurant building on the north side of Highway 98 has been torn down. The demolition came Oct. 26.

Originally located in Fort Walton Beach, the building was moved via barge to an area of Highway 98 between Navarre and Fort Walton Beach. The building reportedly was moved in 2005 to avoid demolition but after years of neglect, eventually met that fate anyway.

From old-school hot rods to the latest high-performance sports cars, the 26th annual Navarre Beach Car, Truck & Bike Show featured a plethora of vehicles for car enthusiasts. In all, 75 vehicles participated during the Oct. 31 event.

The event is organized by the Pirates on the Panhandle, a philanthropic social club based in Navarre. Since its founding in 2009, the organization has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars and donated those funds to nonprofits and schools throughout Northwest Florida.

A 28-year-old man wound up in the hospital following an incident Tuesday, Oct. 27, in which he fell from a debris removal tractor trailer and was subsequently run over.

According to emergency dispatch, the man was riding in a boom operator’s seat on top of the moving vehicle when he was clipped by a low-hanging power line. He fell down and was run over by the trailer and a passenger vehicle near 8082 Gulf Blvd.

A new documentary is giving voice to veterans of the Vietnam era here in Northwest Florida.

“Their Vietnam: Voices of Azalea Trace” is an approximately 100-minute-long film highlighting the service of veterans currently residing at Azalea Trace, a retirement community near the University of West Florida in Pensacola.

The men at the center of the controversial killing of a Milton-area alligator in March have entered into a pretrial diversion (PTD) contract. If the men complete the court-ordered tasks, their charges could be dismissed.

Kevin Lacz, Richard Reder and Jason Griffin are accused of illegally removing an 8.5-foot alligator from a retention pond in Milton and bringing the live alligator to a residence, where it was killed with a power drill. Lacz had previously been a SNAP trapper.