Local legislators want to acquire the Garcon Point Bridge, but first they have to sell the deal to fellow lawmakers and then to current private owners of the bonds that funded the bridge’s construction in 1999.
At around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, Santa Rosa County dispatch received a call regarding a possible shooting in the parking lot of Juana’s, a popular restaurant and bar on Navarre Beach Causeway.
Saturday hundreds of residents in Holley by the Sea found flyers inside their mailboxes without postage. The full-color flyer was an introduction to Gaius Bruce in his re-election bid for the Holley Navarre Water System board of directors.
Despite lengthy delays, construction of a new hotel along Navarre Parkway near the eastern foot of the Navarre Beach Bridge could be underway within weeks.
In a life-threatening emergency, Santa Rosa County residents receive care from the men and women of Lifeguard EMS and firefighters/paramedics. When it becomes clear that an ambulance is not enough, they call in the helicopter.
Fueled by continued frustration over congestion on U.S. Highway 98, the Santa Rosa County Commission took a step forward Monday toward creating an alternative route.
Two teenagers have been jailed in connection with an incident in which a stolen car was allegedly used to perform “donuts” at the Hidden Creek Golf Club, causing thousands of dollars in damage to the greens.
I am the Holley Navarre Water System board director who voted against hiring Rob Williamson as CEO of the utility. My friends and family keep asking me, “why don’t you just quit? You have nothing to gain and nothing is going to change.” My answer is because this is my town. I got my first job out of college in Navarre in 1992 and have been here since then. We had a gas station at Highways 98 and 87, Winn Dixie and McDonalds. It was a small town with good, honest people. That’s why I decided this is where I wanted to be.
I recently moved from Navarre to Chattanooga, and I wrote a short essay about my very special Navarre Beach bridge and bridges as connectors in our lives. I thought your readers might be interested:
Trusting the process can be a difficult thing to do. Tough moments put a strain on that trust, the adversity doing all it can to throw punches that athletes won’t recover from.
