July 1-7, 2021 Blast from the Past
One Year Ago – 2020
Greeting cards packed with drugs and jail tapes uncovered a conspiracy between an inmate and a Navarre woman on the outside to allegedly smuggle opioids into the Santa Rosa County Jail.
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New noise ordinance with ‘teeth’ approved
Written by Ben Johnson on . Posted in News.
Help for citizens concerned about neighborhood noise potentially arrived June 22 when commissioners approved a new ordinance that will help the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office enforce nuisance noise.
The ordinance, which passed 3-1, uses a decibel-based standard to enforce infractions rather than law enforcement determining if a noise is “plainly audible.”
Commissioner makes two false claims
Written by Ben Johnson on . Posted in News.
District 3 Commissioner James Calkins falsely claimed that Santa Rosa County is the only county in Florida that does not participate in the Guardian Program.
Facebook should be a happy place rather than fight club of online communication
Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on . Posted in Opinion.
I’m not sure if it’s me or my generation in general, but I seem to have skipped over the Facebook fandom, never did Myspace and am not particularly keen on any other social media.
Out and About
Written by Sandi Kemp on . Posted in Opinion.
Our local officials have been busy this week sorting out everything from budget, changes to the land development code and what to do about the soon-to-be-empty seat for the county attorney.
I’ll start with the last item first. The county has been using the services of a Tallahassee law firm since commissioners voted to fire the county attorney late last year.
June 24-30, 2021 Blast from the Past
Written by Linda Murchison on . Posted in History.
One Year Ago – 2020
An incident that would have been the first drowning since the launch of a new lifeguard program under the supervision of Navarre Beach Fire Rescue in 2019 was deemed to have been due to a cardiac episode and not a drowning.
8-year-old crowned first Sea Turtle Queen
Written by Kaitie Kiger on . Posted in Beach.
For the past 10 years, the Pensacola Beach Advocates have been hosting a Sea Turtle Baby Shower near the beginning of sea turtle nesting season to spread awareness through a fun family event.
This year, they raffled off a beautiful tiara and the chance to become the first Sea Turtle Queen.
Bears kill 7 family pets in Gulf Breeze
Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on . Posted in News.
A Gulf Breeze pet owner woke Wednesday, June 9, to find that her rabbit and chicken coops had been broken into, apparently by at least one Florida black bear.
Three tropical systems brewing two weeks into hurricane season
Written by Kaitie Kiger on . Posted in News.
Hurricane season started June 1 and meteorologists are already tracking three systems in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
We can all do more, be more and move past gender barriers
Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on . Posted in Opinion, Wise Words.
For the last nine months, I’ve been immersed in the worlds of Navarre and Santa Rosa County.
It’s been fascinating and challenging to understand the smaller community of the area stretched along U.S. Highway 98 and the county, which includes everything from high-rise condominiums to agriculture.