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Businesses face permitting issues

Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in News.

Two businesses operating in the Navarre area along Highway 98 are working through separate permitting processes for outdoor amusements on land and in the water. According to regulators, neither business had secured the necessary permits to begin operating the outdoor amusements.

Practice makes perfect at Wahoo’s swim meet 

Written by John Richardson on . Posted in Sports.

With a full slate of swim meets scheduled for July, Coach Mary Moorer scheduled a mock swim meet June 21 at the Betty J. Pullum Family YMCA in Navarre. “We have a lot of swimmers on the team this year that are new to competitive swimming,” Moorer said. “We wanted to get them used to meet conditions before the July meets are held.”

NFL players, coaches in Navarre

Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Sports.

About 130 high school and middle school football players and their parents spent last weekend in Navarre, so the youth athletes could hone their skills learning from Super Bowl and All-Pro NFL players and coaches. Keith Brahms organized the local camp for Football University, a company that holds the player training events across the country.

New chick signs

Written by Staff Reporters on . 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.

Navarre group changing lives near, far

Written by Staff Reporters on . 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.

Turtle nests on Navarre Beach

Written by Staff Reporters on . 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 . 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.