Navarre turned out for the Nov. 11 community ceremony honoring veterans, with hundreds of people filling Navarre Park’s pavilion and crowding around it. Among those in attendance were the Navarre High School Naval JROTC, two Boy Scout troops and a number of service organizations from the area.

The speaker, retired Chief Warrant Officer Vernon Ward, told those gathered that to be a veteran means to embrace something greater than themselves.

Unexpected federal funding for stormwater runoff control projects might be coming to Santa Rosa County.

The Milton City Council met Nov. 9 to appoint a replacement to fill the unexpired term of David Richardson, who resigned last month due to health issues. Under the requirements of the City Charter, the Council had 60 days to complete the appointment process.

In the Victorian era, grieving family members sometimes saved a lock of a loved one’s hair and wore it in a locket around their necks. Later, as photography became commonplace, some took and saved photos with their deceased family members. Now, a funeral and cremation service in Mary Esther is offering families a chance to capture some of their loved one’s DNA.

On my first day at Navarre Press in 2020, I met Archer, along with all of my other coworkers.

Archer, a Labrador mix, is a working dog who spends most of his days dozing on a bed behind bookkeeper Bethany Stafford’s desk. He dreams and twitches. Sometimes you can hear his tail beat the floor. On what is a “bad dog” day for the working boy, he hopefully approaches a coworker wanting to “make a friend.”

When Jennifer Johnson talks about her military career, she slips past the dark times — some of which lasted years. There are things she still can’t talk about.   Her service dog, Chopper, watches her closely. He is the only one who knows some of the darkest places she went during her 24 years in […]

There is a song called “Joy,” performed by pianist George Winston, which I can credit in part with the beginning of my true writing life.

After college, I had originally gotten into social work and, although I was an English major, had not yet discovered the magic of writing. This song, along with a powerful friendship with someone at that time, connected the two.

When Andy Lee moved to Santa Rosa County in 2017, he was working as an insurance adjuster and commuting to Mobile, Alabama from his Chumuckla home. He had never noticed anything unusual about the old railroad bridge over Blackwater River that is parallel to U.S. Highway 90.

A Pedros Tacos & Tequila Bar may open in Gulf Breeze as early as December. Manager Andres Barajas was at the restaurant Wednesday while contractors worked to install a sprinkler system.

In Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties, paramedics and EMTs are getting financial reminders of how valuable they are to the communities they serve.