On the first day of the year, Navarre Beach residents and visitors will gather for a long-standing tradition. Toes in the cold sand, some dressed in costume, they will gather at the edge of the Gulf of Mexico or inches from Santa Rosa Sound.

Holley-Navarre Primary school students got their very own book signing, special craft and a lesson in publishing Friday with local author Sara Taylor in honor of the launch of “Mira the Misfit Sea Dragon.”

Caring and Sharing of South Santa Rosa County distributed assistance and smiles last week to hundreds of area families.

It’s an iconic scene from cinema, still recognizable to many: a child named Elliott on a bicycle flying in front of a full moon with his extraterrestrial friend wrapped in a sheet in the bike’s front basket.