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Love me, love my business: Is that too much to ask?

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on June 16, 2021. Posted in Opinion.

When we first moved to the area in the mid-1990s, the Navarre Beach Bridge was still a toll.

Somehow, though, I have only positive memories of crossing that bridge despite the fact that I had to rummage through the change dish in my car.

“Jaws” beach movie night kicks off season

Written by Kaitie Kiger on June 16, 2021. Posted in Community.

A couple of hundred people came out to Navarre Beach Tuesday night and put their lawn chairs in the sand to watch “Jaws” for the first beach movie night of the season.

Windjammers on the Pier hosted the movie night June 15, and owners Ken and Tamara Fountain plan to have many more this summer.

“I think we’re going to try to do it every Tuesday, at least for the next couple of months for summer,” Ken said.

Penned blessings adorn sanctuary’s bare floor

Written by Michael Bannon on June 15, 2021. Posted in Faith.

Had you been at Navarre United Methodist Church on Sunday, May 30, you would have been invited to write on the floor of the sanctuary.

Battle over Garcon Bridge toll heats up again

Written by News Service of Florida on June 15, 2021. Posted in News.

In the latest chapter in years of battling about a Northwest Florida bridge, a Leon County circuit judge will hear arguments next week about whether he should force the state Department of Transportation to reinstate tolls on the span.

Daughter needs help burying WW II veteran dad

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on June 14, 2021. Posted in News.

Until a few days before he died, Ruben Patterson was living with his daughter in her Holley By The Sea home.

The veteran of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam war was not Shannon Henson’s biological father. But he was the only dad she’d ever known, having taken her in relatively late in his life. She was his late wife’s granddaughter, though they both adopted her as a child.

Air Force captain uses CPR for first time, saves neighbor’s life

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on June 14, 2021. Posted in Community.

An Eglin Air Force Base captain was recognized Thursday for saving the life of a neighbor’s tiny baby who had stopped breathing.

Christopher A. Mavron and his wife, Pilar, were about to leave their Navarre home to head to a softball practice on the afternoon of May 23 when a neighbor ran out of her house calling for help.

Toddler found drowned Sunday evening may have died hours earlier

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on June 14, 2021. Posted in News.

The father of a 1-year-old who was found drowned in a Navarre Beach canal Sunday night is responsible for her death, according to his Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office arrest report. Through “culpable negligence,” he failed to supervise his daughter, the report said.

Although his daughter, Makennah Potter, who turned 1 last week, was found in the evening, the failure of supervision took place between 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. that afternoon.

Votes were cast at a June 1 special meeting.