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Navarre to open 2022 season against Fort Walton

Written by Brian Lester on March 29, 2022. Posted in Sports.

Navarre will kick off the 2022 regular season in football Aug. 26 on the road against Fort Walton Beach. It is one of six road games Navarre will play this season, including trips to Tallahassee and Panama City.

The Raiders play their first home game of the season Sept. 2 when they take on 5A state-runner Pine Forest at Bennett C. Russell Stadium.

Raiders take positives from tough loss to Patriots

Written by Brian Lester on March 27, 2022. Posted in Sports.

Caitlin Tilton watched as a well hit ball carried through the air on a cool spring evening in Pace.

She ran after it, locked in on making a highlight-worthy play.

Navarre rolls past Fort Walton at Blue Wahoos Stadium for first win

Written by Brian Lester on March 27, 2022. Posted in Sports.

Kolby Vitale slid across home plate Saturday afternoon at Blue Wahoos Stadium to put the first run of the day on the scoreboard for Navarre’s baseball team.

It was one of four runs the Raiders scored in the opening inning of play, setting the tone for that long-awaited first win of the year that came in the form of a 15-2 run-rule victory over Fort Walton Beach.

Jeannie Street fire claims a life, young boy rescued by firefighters

Written by Staff Reporters on March 26, 2022. Posted in News.

Nine minutes after the Holley-Navarre Fire District got the call, Captain Sean Tolar had already saved a life.

The toddler was found just beyond the front door of a burning modular home on Jeannie Street Tuesday, March 15.

Holley Navarre Water Board still waiting on Eglin Reuse project

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on March 26, 2022. Posted in News.

The Eglin Reuse project has been a topic of conversation over the past few months for the water board.

At the March meeting of the Holley Navarre Water System board of directors, the Eglin Reuse project was addressed yet again.

Out and About

Written by Sandi Kemp on March 23, 2022. Posted in Opinion, Out and About.

I had a conversation with a recovering newspaper publisher this past week who was in the newspaper, business journal business for more than 30 years.

He found me because he visited the Navarre Beach Area Chamber and Chanda Ryan, the executive director, told him he should talk to me. We talked for a little bit on the phone but then I invited him to lunch at Panera.

Protecting, preserving, conserving

Written by Staff Reporters on March 23, 2022. Posted in Letters to the Editor, Opinion.

Monday the Santa Rosa County commissioners agreed to a commitment which would put 545 acres of property in east Navarre in conservation status in perpetuity.

This is something everyone can agree on – more green space, more stormwater drainage space, less concrete and a board doing what is absolutely best for Navarre.

Same Songs, new town: Alan and Lindsey Song already making an impact in Navarre

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on March 23, 2022. Posted in Education.

Making an impact in a community can take years, but for the Songs it only took a couple months.

The Songs moved to Navarre in December from Birmingham.

Tom Thumb stores to rebrand as Cumberland Farms

Written by Staff Reporters on March 23, 2022. Posted in Business.

Convenience store owners EG Group will begin converting Tom Thumb convenience stores to the Cumberland Farms brand starting in May.

Largest known collection of turpentine industry artifacts tucked into backyard of Holley home

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on March 23, 2022. Posted in Community.

At the end of a dead-end road in Holley, the largest known collection of artifacts from the turpentine industry is kept in a tidy clay-colored building behind Raymon Melvin’s home.

Melvin, whose dad, granddads and great-granddads all trace their roots to the industry, started his collection when he was 22.