Capt. Alan Dean, commanding officer of Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC), received a hand-made quilt from the Flying Needles Quilt Guild of Niceville during a small ceremony March 6, as part of the Quilt of Valor program.
Hours after learning about last week’s fatal Black Hawk helicopter crash, which took the lives of 11 servicemen, Navarre First Assembly of God on U.S. 98 announced it would host a candlelight ceremony open to the public.
The Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center (NBSTCC) hosts a Trash Bash each month, collecting debris found along the beach in order to protect sea turtles that nest on the beach as well as other forms of marine life.
Gardening can be tricky in a part of the country where the soil is essentially sand and creates a less than ideal situation for growing plants, trees or vegetables.
Around 175 people, including one Navarre woman, attended “March for the Children” in Tallahassee March 5 to support a proposed bill that would limit standardized testing in schools.
A Holley-Navarre Middle School student won first place in the Rotary Club of Navarre essay contest offered to all eighth-grade students in the Navarre area. The contest asked entrants to write an essay on what the Rotary Four-Way Test means to them. Area schools each presented their three best essays to the Rotary Club of Navarre and a committee chose the winning essays.