I went to the AMC Theater on W Street in Pensacola last weekend to see “The Boys in the Boat.” It was a Friday night, which is usually a popular “date” night. However, when we arrived, there were only a few others in the theater. The movie, directed by George Clooney, was well worth seeing, but there were only about eight of us in the movie theater by the time the movie started. When we exited at 8:45ish p.m., the concession stand was closed, and it was like a ghost town.
It has been a little over a year since Destiny Worship Center broke ground on a Navarre campus. Since then, the lot has been cleared, the framework of a building has been erected and work on the site has steadily progressed.
January is National Blood Donor Month and this year; a blood shortage is making donations more needed. According to the American Red Cross, the U.S. is seeing the lowest number of people giving blood in 20 years. The number of people of people donating blood through the Red Cross has fallen by about 40% over that time.
The Holley Navarre Water System (HNWS) came into the Jan. 16 meeting and election anxious to see if members would support a change to the system’s articles of incorporation. That answer was “no.”
A motorcycle clubhouse on East Bay Blvd. has closed following the Nov. 1 purchase of the building (and the property it sits on). The property was purchased by Sunscape Investments LLC from Anthony Weathers for $395,000.
An unexpected hike in the amount agencies pay into the Florida Retirement System wiped out plans to raise Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office salaries, Chief Deputy Randy Tifft said last month.
From the arrival of Wynnehaven Plaza in east Navarre to the opening of several new businesses at Elevate Navarre, developers made their mark on Navarre and south Santa Rosa County in 2023.