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Navarre Lifeguards finish busy season with zero drownings, look to 2024

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on November 13, 2023. Posted in Beach.

“Overwhelming.”

That’s how Beach Safety Division Chief Austin Turnbull describes the 2023 lifeguard season on Navarre Beach. From March 11 to Oct. 29, this year’s season, nearly 1.6 million people (1,591,259) visited Navarre Beach, which only stretches for four miles of Santa Rosa Island. This year, there were 32 Navarre Beach Lifeguards on staff.

Developments and Zoning requests recently approved for Navarre area

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on November 13, 2023. Posted in Business.

With Navarre’s growth in population (from 31,378 in 2010 to 41,940 in 2020) has come additional businesses and housing. To fulfill their goals, business and housing developers oftentimes approach Santa Rosa County Development Services, which oversees planning and zoning, with requests to change zoning classifications, expand business operations and create housing which fits within the developer’s vision.

Weekly roundup: ‘never again’

Written by News Service of Florida on November 13, 2023. Posted in Florida News.

It was heart-wrenching.

As the Florida House began a special legislative session Monday, Holocaust survivor David Schaecter offered an invocation and told of being an 11-year-old boy watching his mother and two younger sisters get gunned down by Nazis.

SMART trailer helps restore firefighters in rough conditions

Written by Staff Reporters on November 13, 2023. Posted in Military, News.

In 2020, an F-22 Raptor crashed deep within the Eglin range. In the barren location with nothing but trees, snakes, fires, and jet plane wreckage, emergency responders endured sweltering 100-degree May heat for hours without access to restrooms or just a cool place to sit down and recharge.

Next stop for UWF Argos: NCAA D-II playoffs

Written by Brian Lester on November 12, 2023. Posted in Sports.

For the fourth consecutive season and fifth time overall in program history, the University of West Florida football team is headed to the NCAA Division II postseason.

The Argos learned Sunday night they would face Gulf South Conference foe Delta State Saturday afternoon in Mississippi.

Navarre Raiders one and done in football postseason

Written by Brian Lester on November 11, 2023. Posted in Sports.

In the silence of a stadium whose eyes won’t see football again until 2024, and the rain finally letting up after falling steadily most of the night, Connor Mathews stood in the back of the end zone waiting for the offensive linemen to finish up a postgame talk with their position coach.

Santa Rosa County Animal Services recognized for maintaining high save rate

Written by Staff Reporters on November 10, 2023. Posted in News.

Santa Rosa County Animal Services maintained no-kill status in 2022, according to Best Friends Animal Society’s annual data report. This means the shelter saved more than 90% of the dogs and cats that entered the shelter last year.

Mediacom offers $60,000 in scholarships to high school seniors

Written by Staff Reporters on November 10, 2023. Posted in Education, News.

West Des Moines, IA – Nov. 10, Mediacom Communications is offering $60,000 in scholarship support for high school seniors who plan to obtain further education. The scholarship program is in its 23rd consecutive year and Mediacom’s investment will award $1,000 World Class Scholarships to 60 high school seniors.

FPL customers to see lower storm costs

Written by News Service of Florida on November 10, 2023. Posted in Florida News.

After Florida Power & Light said the tab for restoring electricity after Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Nicole was lower than expected, state regulators Thursday approved a proposal that will reduce the amount of storm costs passed along to customers.

Woodlawn Beach Middle’s Angela Fulton wants students to know they can succeed

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on November 10, 2023. Posted in Education.

Teachers can have a profound impact, not only on what we learn but how we learn.

Woodlawn Beach Middle School’s Angela Fulton, who was named teacher of the year in October, has been doing just that with mathematics, particularly intensive math.