A high rip current risk is in effect from noon on Sunday, July 4 through the evening of July 5, according to an advisory from the National Weather Service.

When Joe and Pamela Meyer started a home construction project at their Navarre home this spring, they added a doggy door and ran a wire through it. Their home, which has been in the family for more than 30 years, quickly filled up with flies.

About 50 gallons of diesel fuel were spilled in a ditch along East Bay Boulevard Friday morning after a traffic accident near the road’s intersection with DH Harvell Circle in Navarre.

Elsa has been upgraded to a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour. The National Hurricane Center does not have high confidence in her forecast path, which currently takes her into the Gulf of Mexico early next week and then up the western coast of the Peninsula.

The Santa Rosa County Animal Services has 15 dogs who need heartworm medication to recover. Five are already in treatment, while 10 more are waiting on the necessary medication.

This July Fourth will be the first that Florida residents can legally set off fireworks, as long as they don’t light the fuse in a municipality of homeowners association that bans it. Gov. Ron DeSantis passed a bill last year allowing to people to legally set off fireworks on July 4, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

In the past, many Floridians traveled out of state to buy fireworks. Locally, only small items like sparklers and snakes could be sold without a permit prior to HB 140. Local firework sellers offered large selections this year.

A public hearing has been scheduled to discuss the possible amendment of the Navarre Beach Lease Agreement to allow a recreational vehicle park.

An 11-year-old boy who was pulled out by a rip current Wednesday evening is safe thanks to a young surfer.

“The boy was out near the end of the Navarre Pier by the time the surfer reached him,” said Navarre Beach Fire Rescue Chief Danny Fureigh. “He definitely was in pretty bad shape, swallowed a bunch of water, vomited it all back up in our truck.”

A thin slice of Navarre got nearly 3 inches of rain overnight, leaving some intersections and roadways covered by water.

To the people that spot them, they are mysteries, to others they are hoaxes and many remain unsure.

But what is certain is that Unidentified Flying Objects continue to be reported, with close to 6,000 records of sightings in Florida alone.