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Home builders prevail in impact fee case

Written by Staff Reporters on January 16, 2022. Posted in News.

Validating its assertions that Santa Rosa County’s school impact fee was inaccurately calculated and legally flawed, the Home Builders Association of West Florida and 11 additional plaintiffs applaud the Jan. 15, 2022, decision by Circuit Court Judge Darlene Dickey to issue Summary Final Judgment in their favor.

The ordinance by the Board of County Commissioners in support of new funding for the School Board of Santa Rosa County went into effect May 1, 2020, with impact fees of $5,000 on each new home permitted in the county, $4,000 for each mobile home, and $2,750 for each multi-family dwelling.

Finding acceptance in having your soul exposed

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on January 14, 2022. Posted in Opinion, Wise Words.

I’m not always the sharpest technological pencil in the pack, so it took me a while to catch on to the fact that the ads appearing on my Facebook newsfeed were not just randomly things I liked. Like a long while. Years, in fact.

I just thought of it as one of the little miracles of life that the ads that I saw were often for things I actually sought or had thought of buying.

Raiders end losing streak with win on senior night

Written by Brian Lester on January 14, 2022. Posted in Sports.

Jonathan Recinos chased down the Bay ball handler with every last ounce of energy he had and executed a perfect slide tackle, erasing a potential game-tying goal for the Tornadoes, the player falling to the ground and the ball rolling out of bounds.

In a soccer season that hasn’t been easy for Navarre’s boys soccer team, this was the one game Recinos wasn’t going to see end in defeat. Not here at Bennett C. Russell Stadium and not on senior night.

Raider girls soccer team earns key victory over Patriots on senior night

Written by Brian Lester on January 14, 2022. Posted in Sports.

Emma Simon has grown up around the game of soccer, and for the last four seasons at Navarre, her dad, Rob, has been her coach.

That connection made senior night extra special for Simon, who, after the game basked in the glory of a 6-2 win over Pace with her teammates on a chilly January evening at Bennett C. Russell Stadium.

Beach bird? Not really

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on January 14, 2022. Posted in Beach.

In his years of living on the 16th floor of Beach Colony Resort on Navarre Beach, Hardin McLean has seen a lot of seagulls, pelicans and ospreys.

Saturday, he saw something new.

Meet Brad Baker: County leader cares deeply, works hard

Written by Staff Reporters on January 13, 2022. Posted in News.

Brad Baker has been dedicated to the well-being of Santa Rosa County residents since he was 18 years old, when he ran across his first structure fire on the way to meet a friend to go hunting. From then on, he was hooked. He also started working at the county’s 911 center that same year, when it was housed in a closet at the courthouse and had one 911 operator on-site at night.

TDC approves budget increase for fireworks

Written by Staff Reporters on January 13, 2022. Posted in Community.

Citing a 30% increase in material costs as a result of the pandemic, the Santa Rosa County Tourist Development Council approved a request for an additional $5,250 to be added to this year’s Fourth of July fireworks show budget.

New Holley by the Sea Park plans head to Zoning Board

Written by Staff Reporters on January 13, 2022. Posted in News.

Residents of Hawthorn Drive in Holley by The Sea (HBTS) may have noticed a small yellow sign on a piece of vacant property across from Palmetto Lane at its junction with Hawthorne Drive.

New sale every day at Good Neighbor Thrift Store

Written by Staff Reporters on January 13, 2022. Posted in Advertorial, Business Billboard.

If you come to Good Neighbor Thrift Store on a Friday, you’ll find a weekly Friday flash sale on clothing. All children’s clothing is $1.50 and adult clothing is $2.50, no matter what it is.

“People will come up to the register with stacks of hangers and we just count the hangers and multiply,” manager Laura Beth Snow said.

Jan. 13-19, 2022 Blast from the Past

Written by Linda Murchison on January 13, 2022. Posted in History.

One Year Ago – 2020

Renaming the Navarre Beach bridge after Donald J. Trump began on Facebook in December and found its way as an item raised during a public forum of the Board of County Commissioners.