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Incorporation straw poll decision today

Written by Staff Reporters on May 15, 2014. Posted in News.

Navarre residents representing “Citizens to Incorporate Navarre” attended the Monday Santa Rosa County Commission meeting and brought a petition with more than 800 signatures in support of placing a non-binding straw poll on the August ballot in hopes of determining whether or not the community supports moving forward with the incorporation process. They also asked for $27,500 to fund a Feasibility Study that will be required by the Florida State Legislature.

Students with special needs play at Raider Games

Written by Staff Reporters on May 15, 2014. Posted in Sports.

Navarre area students with special needs came out to play games, dance and just have fun at this year’s Raider Sports Ability Games at the Navarre High School fields Friday.

More than 250 run for Lockwood

Written by Staff Reporters on May 15, 2014. Posted in Sports.

Forecasters called for a significant chance of heavy rain and storms May 10 in Navarre, but Ian Lockwood Memorial 5k race director Rebecca McCleery was hoping it would hold off until at least 9:30 a.m., after the race ended. She got her wish.

Here’s looking at you Violet Mullins

Written by Staff Reporters on May 15, 2014. Posted in Community.

Born and raised in the coal-mining town of Arno, Virginia, Violet Mullins knows what it’s like to live the life of a coal miner’s daughter; “I was born in a company house and we lived in a company house … you had to sign your life away at the company store in the little town of Appalachia … the company lived off’n you,” Mullins said.

Fort Walton Beach couple faces animal cruelty charges

Written by Staff Reporters on May 15, 2014. Posted in Crime, News.

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested 32-year-old Jessie Eugene Morris and 25-year-old Amber Leard-Morris of Fort Walton Beach May 9 after deputies responded to a complaint of a man beating a dog with a piece of lumber and then holding it down by its neck with the lumber against its throat.

Pensacola Bay ferry service on the horizon

Written by Staff Reporters on May 15, 2014. Posted in News.

Members of the Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) received an update on the future Pensacola Bay ferry service at their April 9 meeting in Milton. Dan Brown, Gulf Islands National Seashore (GINS) park superintendent, said the ferry service is projected to being in March 2017.

E-2C Hawkeye completes museum’s collection

Written by Staff Reporters on May 15, 2014. Posted in Military, News.

A five-person crew flew a newly-painted E-2C Hawkeye May 9 from Norfolk, Va., to NAS Pensacola. It was the plane’s final flight and shortly after it landed it was presented to the National Naval Aviation Museum. The Hawkeye was the only Navy Fleet aircraft not on display at the museum.