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Tommy Sno Balls expanding to second location

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on April 17, 2023. Posted in Business.

A Navarre staple will soon be serving snow cones to locals and visitors at a second location.

Tommy’s Sno-Balls is opening a new location near the northern corner of Highway 87 and East Bay Boulevard. The new location will be known as Tommy’s Sno-Balls 2.

Home at last: Korean War vet buried in Barrancas after 73 years missing

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on April 17, 2023. Posted in Community, History, Military, News.

Military families are no stranger to homecomings but for one family in Northwest Florida, they had a homecoming 73 years in the making.

On April 4, one family finally got the opportunity to say hello and goodbye to a Korean War veteran who had been missing since 1950. Private First Class Ithiel Whatley, of Pensacola, had been reported missing July 12, 1950, in the vicinity of Choci’won in present day South Korea. He was 19 at the time.

Raider boys weightlifting program maintains tradition of success

Written by Brian Lester on April 17, 2023. Posted in Sports.

As another boys state weightlifting meet wrapped up late Saturday inside the RP Funding Center in Lakeland, coach Garrett Bagley looked over the numbers as he stood in the middle of the arena floor.

He couldn’t help but feel good about his team.

Raiders end flag football season with loss to Pace

Written by Brian Lester on April 13, 2023. Posted in Sports.

Madison Simmons ran with the ball in her hands, looking at first as if she was going to pass before keeping possession of it and weaving through a few defenders for extra yards.

That play defined the second half for the Navarre Raider flag football team, which kept battling even with a comeback out of reach against eighth-ranked Pace last Wednesday.

South end high school opening pushed back to 2026

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on April 12, 2023. Posted in Education, News.

Residents in the Midway area will have to wait another year longer for a new 195,000-square-foot high school to open.

At the April 4 Santa Rosa County School Board meeting, DAG Architects announced that the new south end school’s opening is being pushed back to August 2026. It had originally be planned to open in Fall 2025.

Raiders, Dolphins compete in unified game that carries great deal of meaning

Written by Brian Lester on April 12, 2023. Posted in Community.

Dwayne Clark Jr. raised his arms up in celebration as Nathan Link put up a shot and made a basket.

The smile on the face of everyone on the court, including Link, as well as the roar of the crowd said it all in a unified basketball game between Navarre and Gulf Breeze two weeks ago.

Rebekah Jones’ son arrested after alleged school threats

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on April 11, 2023. Posted in Crime, Education, News.

The teenage son of Rebekah Jones, a data analyst and former Democratic Party candidate for U.S. House, has been charged with intimidation, a second-degree felony.

Jackson Jones, 13, was arrested for allegedly threatening to conduct a mass shooting at Holley Navarre Middle School, where he was previously a student. The threats first came to the attention of Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office March 20, when an East Bay K8 student told school officials about a school shooting threat she saw on social media.

New water well for south Santa Rosa customers now online

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on April 11, 2023. Posted in Business, News.

On Thursday, April 6, Holley Navarre Water System cut the ribbon for a new drinking water supply well off Pinewood Lane in Harold. It is Well No. 7 for the Fairpoint Regional Utility System, which is comprised of three member utilities, of which HNWS is one.

Santa Rosa Historical Society holds local authors event

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on April 10, 2023. Posted in Community.

While Bands on the Blackwater played Friday, March 31, another event in downtown Milton was happening.

At the historic Imogene Theatre, a group of local authors gathered to share their books and their experiences with those who stopped into Santa Rosa County Historical Society’s A Night Without Shakespeare.

South to freedom: Northwest Florida’s role in Underground Railroad

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on April 6, 2023. Posted in Community, History, News.

Northwest Florida is rich in history, but one part of its history has been getting more attention from historians in recent years.

In September 2021, the Pensacola Pass was recognized as an Underground Railroad site by the National Park Service. The following year, in November, Fort Pickens attained the same status. Both sites are part of NPS’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, which consists of 700 listings in 39 states, plus Washington D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands.