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Southern Pipe opens in Navarre

Written by Staff Reporters on March 27, 2014. Posted in Business.

Mississippi-based Southern Pipe and Supply opened its newest branch location about three weeks ago in Navarre. The company is leasing a facility at 7534 Navarre Parkway, previously occupied by Bayview Flooring and Interiors.

Warriors hit the waves

Written by Staff Reporters on March 27, 2014. Posted in Beach.

Organizers expect the 3rd Annual Navarre Beach Surf Warriors event will send four or five participants to the East Coast Surfing Championship in August to compete in the wounded warrior division. CJ Stein said she expects 15 wounded warriors to participate this year in the six lesson program that begins May 3.

Navarre Beach water quality in the clear

Written by Staff Reporters on March 27, 2014. Posted in Beach.

Comparing water quality to neighboring beaches in Escambia and Okaloosa counties, Navarre area beaches scored best according to the most recent Department of Health results.

Supreme Court OK’s beach taxes

Written by Staff Reporters on March 27, 2014. Posted in News.

The Florida Supreme Court voted unanimously March 20 that Santa Rosa County Property Appraiser Greg Brown was correct in assessing property taxes on leased land and structures on Navarre Beach. Brown began assessing property taxes on Navarre Beach leaseholders shortly after taking office in 2001 – a move he says has generated $81 million in revenue. Roughly $3.65 million more is now expected for interest fees on a portion of that revenue which remained unpaid.

New city better off after incorporation

Written by Staff Reporters on March 27, 2014. Posted in News.

Only three communities have incorporated in Florida since 2005 and the largest one based on population is Cutler Bay. The city of approximately 42,000 people is located in Miami-Dade County.

The boys are back in town

Written by Staff Reporters on March 27, 2014. Posted in News.

Family members anxiously watched the skies and listened March 24 and in an instant the Navy’s Blue Angels made a pass over the runway at NAS Pensacola. The team had spent the last eight weeks training at Naval Air Facility El Centro, Calif. and was now back home.

Clary pushes partners’ property for courthouse

Written by Staff Reporters on March 22, 2014. Posted in News.

Another former Florida state legislator has thrown property he owns into consideration as a future courthouse site. Former senator Charlie Clary joins former representative Cotton Byrom in offering the county an East Milton land deal.

FWC seeks helps monitoring horseshoe crabs

Written by Staff Reporters on March 20, 2014. Posted in News.

Spring marks horseshoe crabs’ mating season, and biologists from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Committee (FWC) want the public’s help identifying spawning sites.

Surface water quality rules changing

Written by Staff Reporters on March 20, 2014. Posted in News.

About 30 people, most of them representing local governments and organizations that participate in water monitoring data collection, attended a Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) meeting March 13 in Pensacola to provide input and learn about the department’s water quality assessment and restoration priorities for the next two years.

Gulf Breeze brother-sister team wins business plan competition

Written by Staff Reporters on March 20, 2014. Posted in Education.

Fifteen local students participated March 12 in the first Greater Pensacola Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!) investor panel showdown. Nine teams took the stage in a “shark-tank-like format” and pitched their ideas to a panel of business leaders. At the end of the competition, the panel selected The Spice Kidz, 12-year-old Eve Knight and 13-year-old Liam Knight from Gulf Breeze Middle School, as the winners. They will now compete in the Yea! Saunders Scholars Regional Competition.