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Take Stock In Children helping students throughout Santa Rosa

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on February 14, 2023. Posted in Education.

There are many educational opportunities available to students in Santa Rosa County. Take Stock In Children is one such opportunity.

Started in 1995, Take Stock In Children is a multiyear, statewide nonprofit scholarship program in which students are paired with mentors to help them build academic success toward college. It began as a way to combat public school dropout rates.

Salt Water Stitchers donate quilts to officers

Written by Staff Reporters on February 14, 2023. Posted in Community.

The local Navarre sewing group Salt Water Stitchers continued their quest to make quilts for all the school resource officers in the south end of Santa Rosa County.

Last May, they made eight quilts and presented them to the Navarre and Woodlawn Beach schools.
In September 2022, they began to make five more quilts for the school resource officers at the Gulf Breeze schools, Oriole Beach Elementary, and the new officer at Holley Navarre Primary.

Despite challenges, Dawn’s Cookies and Café looks to open with new location

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on February 14, 2023. Posted in Business.

Running a business can be challenging.

For Dawn Funk and her family, the challenges they have faced over the past year have presented frustration, but also opportunity.

Clark ready to soar with Hawks

Written by Brian Lester on February 13, 2023. Posted in Uncategorized.

When Navarre linebacker Dwayne Clark Jr. is on the football field, nothing else matters.

It’s just him and the opportunity to make a big play on the defensive side of the ball while playing the game he is passionate about.

Pensacola Bay Bridge westbound structure opens to traffic Tuesday, Feb. 14

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

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will open the westbound (Gulf Breeze to Pensacola) span of the Pensacola Bay Bridge on U.S. 98 to vehicular traffic by 6 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14.

The two spans of the bridge are now temporarily accommodating two east and two westbound travel lanes, but upon final completion of the project each structure will support three lanes of traffic in each direction, along with inside and outside shoulders, and 10-foot wide multiuse paths for pedestrians and bicyclists.

Cole to play football at Birmingham-Southern

Written by Brian Lester on February 13, 2023. Posted in Sports.

Isaac Cole had a knack for getting pressure on the quarterback this season. And even if he didn’t come away with a sack, the standout defensive lineman for the Navarre Raiders often forced the signal caller to make a decision he probably didn’t want to make.

Now Cole is set to take his talents to the college level where he’ll play ball for NCAA Division III Birmingham-Southern.

Raiders set to field ‘best squad to date’ in boys lacrosse

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

Navarre’s boys lacrosse team is coming off its best season in the short history of the program. The Raiders won six games, doubling their win total from the year prior, and now head into the fourth year of lacrosse at the school hoping to take things a step further.

103 years: Helen Seagrave recalls lifetime of memories

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on February 10, 2023. Posted in Community.

The milestone for most people is to make it to 100 years, or a century, old. For Helen Seagrave, she has been there and done that. Sunday, Jan. 29, she turned 103.

Seagrave, who has resided at Navarre Gardens on Highway 87 for just over a year, was born in 1920 in Connecticut, near New London.

Navarre’s girls lacrosse team fired up and ready to go

Written by Brian Lester on February 10, 2023. Posted in Sports.

Navarre took a big step forward in girls lacrosse a season ago, making a surprise run to the district tourney final for the first time in program history.

The Raiders won only two games in 2022 but played well when it mattered to get a shot at the title. Their season ended with a 13-4 loss to area power Niceville.

New vacation cottages expected to open this spring

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on February 10, 2023. Posted in News.

If you have driven on Granada or Carlos streets in Navarre at any point in the past month, you may have noticed work being done on the lot across from the Childcare Network. There are approximately nine new cottages going in as part of a rental project called Sum Beach Rentals.

Before these cottages, which are not finished, the lot was home to a trailer park that had become dilapidated. The project to create Sum Beach Rentals began when Jeff Perrett, an entrepreneur and developer, bought the property July 15, 2022.