Few people can think of a time when someone soliciting a product was a welcome sight at their door, but for JoAnne Orr, it has turned out to be a blessing.
Since the ninth century, Christian pilgrims have journeyed along a network of paths across France, Portugal and Spain to visit the shrine of the apostle James in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain.
The pilgrimage, known as the Way of St. James or Camino Santiago, encompasses hundreds of miles of trails through cities and countryside. According to some scholars and historians, it is also the route James the greater took into Spain, where he preached the gospel. He is said to have been buried in Santiago de Compostela.
From revamping and rebuilding the children’s park to the removal of the duck pond, Navarre Park has undergone drastic changes in the past few years and according to County Commissioner Colten Wright, there will be more coming.
At the Aug. 3 Tourist Development Council meeting, Wright told the council the dock at Navarre Park may soon be getting a long awaited upgrade.
Navarre Beach Fishing Pier is the number one pier in Florida for successful sea turtle stranding efforts.
According to the Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center (NBSTCC), they have saved 45 from the pier in 2023 alone. In 2022, they saved 50 sea turtles at the pier.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has given the greenlight for a traffic light at the intersection of Highway 98 and Ortega St. in Navarre.
County Commissioner Ray Eddington, who represents Navarre and Holley, said the news came Aug. 7 in an email from FDOT to his office. According to Eddington, the state agency launched another study of the intersection earlier this year at his request.
The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office recently saw two members of its K9 unit retire. K9s Dozer and Prince each are saying goodbye to police work after spending most of their lives in service to the county.
Dozer began with the Sheriff’s Office in a distinctive way.
“The first thing I noticed were his eyes, he had steel, clear blue eyes.”
Norm Chapman, a former Pensacola Police chief and detective, is probably best known for interrogating one of America’s most famous serial killers, Theodore Robert Bundy. Better known as Ted.
According to Environment America, a nonprofit environmental research and policy center, roughly one-half of America’s beaches had potentially unsafe contamination levels in 2022.
Out of 3,192 beaches, 1,761 experienced at least one day on which fecal contamination reached potentially unsafe levels.
