Longtime community service advocate and co-founder of the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce Bill Pullum passed away peacefully in his sleep Sunday morning.
Touting the measure as a way of allowing students to “reflect and be able to pray as they see fit,” Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill that will require public schools to hold moments of silence at the beginning of each day.
Until a few days before he died, Ruben Patterson was living with his daughter in her Holley By The Sea home.
The veteran of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam war was not Shannon Henson’s biological father. But he was the only dad she’d ever known, having taken her in relatively late in his life. She was his late wife’s granddaughter, though they both adopted her as a child.
An Eglin Air Force Base captain was recognized Thursday for saving the life of a neighbor’s tiny baby who had stopped breathing.
Christopher A. Mavron and his wife, Pilar, were about to leave their Navarre home to head to a softball practice on the afternoon of May 23 when a neighbor ran out of her house calling for help.
The father of a 1-year-old who was found drowned in a Navarre Beach canal Sunday night is responsible for her death, according to his Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office arrest report. Through “culpable negligence,” he failed to supervise his daughter, the report said.
Although his daughter, Makennah Potter, who turned 1 last week, was found in the evening, the failure of supervision took place between 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. that afternoon.
On June 13, 1931, the counties of Escambia and Santa Rosa celebrated the opening of not only the Pensacola Bay Bridge that joined Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties, but also a bridge that crossed Santa Rosa Sound to a newly constructed casino at Pensacola Beach.