State officials blinked in their negotiations with Gulf Breeze City Council and agreed to pay the municipality nearly three times Tallahassee’s original offer for right of way to build the planned new Pensacola Bay Bridge.
The summer tourist season is in full swing on Navarre Beach, and west of the fishing pier, lines of bright blue and green umbrellas once again dot the waterline courtesy of rental companies.
Executive Director of Holley-Navarre Water Systems, Billy Sublett has resigned his position with the member-owned company saying in part in an email to Navarre Press, “My work here is completed.”
The economic impact of April’s two-day Tough Mudder event, while significant, was far less than the $6 million that the company claimed at its one-day military-style obstacle course in March 2015, according to a new Haas Center study.
The neighborhood called “Robledal Estates” on East Bay Boulevard may seem like just another waterfront neighborhood. However, it was the scene the oldest documented history of the area we now call Navarre.
Although a member of the Sacred Heart Health System’s development team finally agreed to meet with the leader of several homeowner groups in Tiger Point East, the controversial entrance to a new clinic won’t be relocated.
Fugitive John Wesley Saatio was on the run when he was apprehended by Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies Sunday evening, July 3. Saatio escaped Saturday when he reportedly fled a private inmate transportation company’s custody at 10:30 p.m. at the I-10 rest area at mile marker 29 in Santa Rosa County. Saatio was extradited last week from Costa Rica after escaping custody last year in Michigan. News reports state that Saatio also escaped custody in Costa Rica after he was initially caught – and then caught again.
Adapting to life in a new city won’t be anything new to Navarre’s Zamir Jones when he heads to New England this fall to play basketball at Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts.
