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Pier bar reopening March 14

Written by Staff Reporters on February 20, 2014. Posted in Business.

In celebration of Mardi Gras, the new Navarre Fishing Pier management team served beer and wine and hosted live entertainment on the deck Feb. 22. The group plans to reopen the pier bar March 14 after facing weather-related and other unexpected delays, including demolition of the previous bar by the former pier operator.

Gulf Breeze Chamber selects new exec

Written by Staff Reporters on February 20, 2014. Posted in Business.

A local resident and chamber of commerce enthusiast – Kristen Loera – will begin leading the Gulf Breeze Area Chamber of Commerce tomorrow. The chamber’s board of directors announced Loera’s selection Feb. 20. Loera replaces Josie Cotti, who announced her resignation from the chamber in January.

More than $36 million in county reserves

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

Santa Rosa County has built up a general fund reserve of $22,137,847. That fund is unrestricted and may be used for purposes such as operating the county during a disaster. Santa Rosa County’s total reserves top $36 million, but some of those funds are restricted, committed or assigned for a specific use.

Local impact from Airbus unknown

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

JetBlue will be the proud owner of the first A321 assembled at the Airbus facility in Mobile, Ala., in 2015. At this point, it is impossible to know what if any impact the $600 million project will have on northwest Florida. Airbus Director of Economic and Community Development Michelle Hurdle was the featured speaker Friday at the Panhandle Tiger Bay Club in Pensacola.

Man robs Holley home after solicitation attempt

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

A man posing as a door-to-door salesman robbed a residence on Forester Road Sunday night, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office offense report. The man was described as a white male possibly in his 20s, 5’10 to 6-feet-tall with brown hair and an unshaven scruffy look.

Group supporting Navarre’s incorporation seeks signatures

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

The Citizens to Incorporate Navarre Political Action Committee is actively seeking signatures in an effort to persuade county officials to put a nonbinding straw poll to gauge interest in Navarre becoming a city on the August 26 primary ballot. The group met last night at the Navarre Conference Center to provide an update on their efforts.

Grieving over pets becoming common, more public

Written by Associated Press on February 20, 2014. Posted in News.

Pittsburgh (AP) — In 30 years of publishing as a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, C. Clifton Black has never received such an outpouring of reader support as he did when he wrote a lament for his dog Pinky, who had died at age 16.

Whiting to participate in anti-terrorism exercise

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

Naval Air Station (NAS) Whiting Field – NAS Whiting Field is participating in Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield ’14, an anti-terrorism/force protection exercise that will be conducted on all continental United States Naval installations through Feb. 28. The exercise began Feb. 18.

Grants strengthen Santa Rosa’s military ties

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

Recently Santa Rosa County was awarded two defense-related state grants. A $200,000 infrastructure grant will be used to continue property acquisitions to buffer NAS Whiting Field operations, and an $80,000 grant will be used to fund military support services, including a study of local military retirees.

Eglin Civil Air Patrol visits Hurricane Hunters

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

Eglin Air Force Base – Eglin Eagles of the Civil Air Patrol had the opportunity recently to tour the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance squadron at Keesler Air Force Base, near Biloxi, Miss. Squadron members were also treated to a tour of the 403rd Maintenance Group Propulsion Flight and shown the operations in maintaining the WC-130s for their weather missions.