When Weeks Marine Inc. postponed its scheduled restoration of Pensacola Beach last week it seemed to signal that the company could start dredging and filling on Navarre Beach as planned on or about April 1.
Twenty years ago this week the Holley-Navarre Water System building burned including the financial records that were inside. There was an ensuing investigation by the Florida State Fire Marshal, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Internal Revenue Service. Two main suspects were named, but never charged because of the lack of concrete evidence. The statute of limitations has run out on this unsolved crime.
To a sold-out crowd on Feb. 6, the Holley Navarre Senior Center Mystery Dinner Theater group gave a rousing performance of the murder mystery “‘Pasta, Passion and Pistols.” The center was transformed into a little Italian restaurant in Little Italy, N.Y. for the play. Restaurant owner Pepi Roni was shot in the back and the patrons of the restaurant were left to figure out who was the murderer.
Jim Wendel was once asked by former principal Bill Emerson what an ideal building for a construction academy would look like if he could have one on the campus of Navarre High School.
Mary Beloat didn’t even place in the science fair a year ago.
The seventh-grader at Holley-Navarre Middle School has a different story this year. She is one of eight students from the school who is headed to the state science fair in Orlando.
Already sweating nearly half-way into his hourlong physical therapy session at the Andrews Institute in Gulf Breeze, Michael Carter takes a moment to grab a drink of water.
