The weather wasn’t the only thing heating up in June. Sales of area single-family homes were hot, jumping a lofty 42.9 percent, as compared to last year, according to statistics provided by the Navarre Area Board of Realtors (NABOR).
This Atlantic hurricane season may not be quite as busy as federal forecasters once thought, but they still warn of an unusually active and potentially dangerous few months to come.
With a little nudge from the Santa Rosa County Tourist Development Council (TDC), three marine groups based in Navarre Beach Park are making an effort to unite and set goals to jointly pursue. The new coalition is planning to reach out to other beach stakeholders and start meeting monthly as a subcommittee of the TDC’s south end committee.
Despite plenty of days with rough surf in the region this year, there have not been an exceedingly high number of rescues by Navarre Beach lifeguards this summer. Lifeguards have rescued almost 30 people out of the Gulf of Mexico this year in the Navarre Beach lifeguard protection area.
Allison ‘Cat’ Pettigrew was drawn to be a pitcher from an early age. “When I watched my older sister Emily play, I was mesmerized by the pitcher’s windup,” Pettigrew said. “At five or six years old, I would walk around the house, practicing that windup motion. There was just something about it.” When she was eight, Pettigrew began using that motion as she pitched for her NYSA team.
Women across the U.S. are risking their lives for black market procedures to make their buttocks bigger, often involving home-improvement materials such as silicone injected by people with no medical training.
Gulf Breeze resident Frank Spellman might be approaching 91 years-old, but he’s still in great shape and has a great mindset and strong faith – which he credits as a major factor in his accomplishments and successes.