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Vacant mobile home heavily damaged in fire

Written by Staff Reporters on February 15, 2022. Posted in News.

A Valentine’s Day fire completely destroyed a mobile home, according to a Holley-Navarre Fire District press release.

The call came in just after 5 a.m. of a structure fire on the southside of U.S. Highway 98 near Walmart. The call was actually in the 2000 block of Blankenship Road.

Public hearing slated for Interstate-10 widening

Written by Staff Reporters on February 15, 2022. Posted in News.

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will hold a hybrid public hearing concerning the I-10 Widening Project Development and Environment (PD&E) Studies from west of State Road (S.R.) 281 (Avalon Boulevard) to west of County Road (C.R.) 189 (Log Lake Road) and from west of C.R. 189 (Log Lake Road) to east of S.R. 85 (Ferdon Boulevard) in Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties Tuesday, March 15.

Teacher’s ‘second family’ comes together to help during emergency

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on February 14, 2022. Posted in Community.

Jamie Oestmann, a paraprofessional at Holley Navarre Middle School, is grateful for her “second family” after a health emergency.

She went in for hysterectomy surgery Dec. 21. She came home and began to feel a significant amount of pain. The pain went on for some time before she realized she needed help.

Teen anti-vaping program available

Written by Staff Reporters on February 12, 2022. Posted in Education.

Tobacco Free Florida in Santa Rosa County introduced Live Vape Free, a first-ever program that offers tools and resources to address teen electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use.

Floridatown Living Shoreline project awarded $800,000

Written by Staff Reporters on February 12, 2022. Posted in News.

Santa Rosa County was awarded a $800,000 Resilient Florida Grant for the Floridatown Living Shoreline project.

State appropriation funds pre-design for medical examiner’s office

Written by Ben Johnson on February 11, 2022. Posted in News.

The Santa Rosa Commissioners selected Caldwell Associates Architects Inc. to design the District One Medical Office and moved their contract approval to Thursday morning’s meeting.

New Navarre Beach rental caters to large families

Written by Kaitie Kiger on February 10, 2022. Posted in News.

Navarre Beach is filled with beach house rentals, but very few can hold 30 people comfortably. Some families find ways around that by inflating air mattresses and combining sleeping arrangements.

No Shoes Beach House, which was recently completed, is a new option for large groups with nine bedrooms.

Milton man pulls Fort Walton mayor out of burning car

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on February 10, 2022. Posted in News.

A Milton tow truck driver is being hailed as “Our Hero – Our Angel” by the mayor of Fort Walton Beach’s family after saving him and his wife from a burning vehicle.

Mayor Dick Rynearson and his wife, Janey, were heading to a gas station off Interstate 10 near Live Oak Jan. 26 when their car was t-boned and burst into flames.

Disgusted by both political parties

Written by Staff Reporters on February 10, 2022. Posted in Letters to the Editor, Opinion.

I am thoroughly disgusted by both of the major political parties in the United States of America.

Since 2008, they both have been locked in a battle for domestic power that has significantly weakened our dominance in the rest of the world.

Navarre Beach has ‘big parking problem’

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on February 8, 2022. Posted in Beach.

Events sponsored by nonprofit groups on Navarre Beach, especially during the high season, came under fire at last week’s Tourist Development Council meeting. Specifically, concerns were expressed about these events taking up parking spaces, a particularly valuable commodity now that tourism has increased threefold in the last half-dozen years.