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Organize your garage with Closets by Design

Written by Staff Reporters on January 26, 2026. Posted in Advertorial, Home & Garden.

With the holidays behind us, your garage is probably pretty cluttered right about now, storing boxes and boxes of decorations. You’ve got red and green Christmas decorations and glittery New Year’s decorations stacked on top of fall decorations. Decorating and undecorating for the holidays can be chaotic. And with the help of Closets by Design, your garage or storage room will be organized, and every decoration will have a home, making preparing for the holidays enjoyable like it should be.

Good Neighbor thanks volunteers for making a difference

Written by Staff Reporters on January 26, 2026. Posted in Advertorial, Business Billboard.

Snowbird season is in full swing, and a lot of those snowbirds graciously flock to Good Neighbor Thrift Store to spend some of their free time volunteering in the beach town they have come to know and love.

Brian Out Loud

Written by Brian Lester on January 26, 2026. Posted in Brian Out Loud, Opinion.

Year 11 is almost officially in the books for me.

This Thursday marks my work anniversary and it’s hard to believe more than a decade has gone by since my move to Florida.

Everette Alford lands new head football coaching position

Written by Brian Lester on January 23, 2026. Posted in Sports.

Everette Alford has landed his new job as a football coach.

The former Lighthouse Private Christian Academy head coach will take on the same role at Port St. Lucie.

Holley Navarre Water urges preparation ahead of hard freeze

Written by Gail Acosta on January 23, 2026. Posted in News.

Temperatures may be sitting in the upper 60s along the Florida Panhandle today (Jan. 23, 2026), but the National Weather Service in Mobile has issued an Extreme Cold Watch for Alabama, Mississippi and Northwest Florida.

District tourney ends in heartbreak for Raider girls soccer team

Written by Brian Lester on January 23, 2026. Posted in Sports.

As Pace celebrated a thrilling victory Thursday night, several of the Navarre soccer players gathered around their goalie after a penalty kick shootout dashed the Raiders’ hopes of playing for a district championship.

With investigation closed, former Gulf Breeze Elementary admin moved to new role

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on January 22, 2026. Posted in Education.

Kimberly McChesney, a former Gulf Breeze Elementary School assistant principal, has been placed in a new role within the district after an investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing related to events at the end of the 2024-25 school year.

McChesney, who was placed on administrative leave in August 2025 after her son, Matthew McChesney, was arrested in July on a charge of possession of child pornography, has been reassigned to the Blended Academy. She will serve as assistant principal of the school, which offers a hybrid model of online education and in-person support.

A closer look at Raider boys basketball team

Written by Brian Lester on January 22, 2026. Posted in Sports.

Navarre’s boys basketball team wraps up the regular season this week and has shown is it making strides this year under first year head coach Todd Arasmith.

Raider boys soccer team survives and advances in district tourney

Written by Brian Lester on January 22, 2026. Posted in Sports.

Aden Ottley had a good look at the goal and knew he had an opportunity to make something happen.

With under 10 minutes to play in a tightly contested District 1-6A quarterfinal against Crestview on Wednesday, the senior fired a shot right past the goalie, breaking a scoreless tie and ultimately shifting the momentum in the Navarre Raiders’ favor.

Nothing strange about Raiders having success in girls basketball

Written by Brian Lester on January 21, 2026. Posted in Sports.

Abi Hackl made back-to-back 3-pointers in the third quarter of Navarre’s girls basketball game against Pace, firing up her teammates and the crowd as the Raiders extended their lead against the Patriots.

Hackl is a role player, so she doesn’t normally grab the spotlight. But this was her time to shine and she made the most of it in a 59-37 win.