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New chick signs

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in News.

Personnel from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) posted four, bright yellow signs on the Navarre Beach Causeway Bridge Friday hoping that they will help slow traffic passing through a shorebird nesting area. The signs are the latest effort to protect the shorebirds and their chicks that are not yet able to fly.

Hurlburt hosts joint weapons training

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in Military, News.

Airmen from the 4th Special Operations Squadron and soldiers from the 20th Special Forces Group conducted joint weapons training June 2 through June 13 on the Eglin Range.

Navarre group changing lives near, far

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in Faith.

A Navarre-based Christian missions organization, Shield of Faith Missions, is working to transform lives and change communities from the local area to remote locations around the world. Twenty volunteers recently concluded a nine-day mission trip where they were able to share God’s love through service to more than 2,000 people in Peru.

Service members, spouses ‘real heroes’

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in Faith.

Retired Lt. Colonel Oliver North shared his thoughts about service to country and faith in God during three services June 21 and 22 at Destiny Worship Center in Miramar Beach.

Real estate ‘one stop shop’ to open on Navarre Beach

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in Business.

“It’s a work in progress, but we know the direction we’re going,” said Larry Kingrey, one half of a partnership that is leasing the county-owned, 3,000-square-foot building on Gulf Boulevard that was most recently home to Sandy Bottoms.

Turtle nests on Navarre Beach

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in Beach.

What a difference a few days can make. Volunteers had made their 5:30 a.m. trek along Navarre Beach since May 1 looking for sea turtle nests, and for 49 days they found none. However, three loggerhead turtle nests have now been discovered between June 19 and 23.

Making piers safer for turtles

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in Beach.

A sea turtle education, research and rehabilitation center in Juno Beach, Fla., has launched an initiative designed to improve the chances of survival for sea turtles that are accidentally caught or injured near fishing piers. And, after two workshops in Santa Rosa and Bay counties over the weekend, eight additional piers are joining the initiative.

County set to approve recycling contract with ECUA

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in News.

Santa Rosa County Commissioners at their regular meeting June 26 are expected to approve a 2-year contract with Emerald Coast Utilities Authority (ECUA) for transportation and processing of recyclable material.

Incorporation consultant gathers facts

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in News.

Joe Mazurkiewicz, the consultant hired by Citizens to Incorporate Navarre, to complete a feasibility study spent two days in Santa Rosa County last week gathering information from county department heads, staff members and community leaders.

F-35 catches fire at Eglin AFB

Written by Staff Reporters on June 26, 2014. Posted in News.

An Air Force F-35A Lightning II from the 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base caught fire June 23 just prior to takeoff. According to 1st Lt. Hope Cronin, the aircraft was preparing to conduct a continuation training mission at the time of the incident but aborted during takeoff due to a fire in the back of the aircraft.