Christin Stephens loves to run and thought it would be a great idea to combine that love with Pink Pirates’ efforts to raise awareness and money for the battle against breast cancer.
Juana’s Pagodas on Navarre Beach is hosting its third annual Oktoberfest Saturday and could potentially draw its biggest crowd yet because of the other events taking place the same day.
An event of potentially epic proportions for Navarre, Country on the Sound, fell short of the imagined goals set by event planner and owner of Navarre Water Sports, Greg Britton. But overall, he and others were pleased with how the first-year event turned out. “We couldn’t have asked for better talent or a better group of people to work with,” Britton said.
The Pink Pirates of Navarre celebrated their official ribbon cutting as the newest members of the Navarre Area Beach Chamber Monday, Oct. 6. The ceremony took place just five days before the group celebrates October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month at their second annual event entitled “Pinktoberfest.”
The alleged perpetrator of a bank robbery five months ago at Navarre’s Centennial Bank, Joel Anthony Beauchemin, 22, was arrested Friday, Sept. 25 when he turned himself in at the Santa Rosa County Jail. Beauchemin graduated from Navarre High School in 2011 and was a member of the track and field team, football and baseball teams.
“The rains of Sept. 28 are an event that happens only once every hundred years,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Maniscalco referring to the amount of rain that fell within a six-hour period. “It was torrential.”
Felix Valle-Ulieses, 45, of Tortuga Street in Navarre, was arrested Saturday evening, Sept. 26 for lewd and lascivious behavior on a victim age 12 to 16.
The Gulf Breeze Fire Department is reassessing how it responds to calls for medical help from senior living facilities as development plans move forward for a second one inside the city limits.
First responses to traffic accidents and other emergencies in Santa could be reduced by several minutes thanks to a planned alliance of vehicle dispatch responsibilities with Escambia County assistance workers.
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Myers was remembered Sept. 28 as an individual who touched thousands of lives in countless positive ways in the decades he wore a badge.