While parents spend hundreds on back to school for their children, Navarre teachers are pitching in just as much of their own cash to supply their students and stock their classrooms.
It is as juvenile and immature as what you would see on a playground with children, only most of the children on a playground are better behaved than this. The two Tony’s (Alexander and Hughes) seem to be taking their frustration out on the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce. Alexander was fired in 2014 and threatened a wrongful termination lawsuit that never happened. Hughes, president of Beach Community Bank withdrew himself as the Chamber representative for his business. He filed an individual membership application and he says he was “expelled” from the Chamber. And now, lo and behold, they want to start their own chamber while touting the need for unity.
After more than 34 years, Navarre Beach Fire Department captain Gary Diamond hung up his hat Saturday, Aug. 6, and pinned Danny Fureigh as the new captain.
The wooden beachfront shack sat vacant, collecting sand and salty grime from years of lacking care. Mold had begun to grow on the walls, floors and ceiling of the county-owned building.
Cyrus Grimes took a great deal of pressure off his shoulders earlier this summer when he announced he verbally committed to South Alabama to play baseball.
Emma Warren was all smiles as she celebrated her centennial birthday on Thursday with family. The room at a local restaurant was filled with her sister, three of her six children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and even great-great grandchildren.
Record numbers of exceptional adults, volunteers and caregivers danced the night away Friday, July 29, at the Dance for All Caregiver’s Night Out event hosted by Hope that HEALS in the Community Life United Methodist Church gymnasium.
The way of the Elks Lodge in Navarre has historically been to give humbly and richly to the community it serves without being in the spotlight. So much so that when asked about their programs, they shy away from highlighting their own contributions and focus on the need for the programs they sponsor. But on Saturday, they opened the doors to the community in hopes of raising funds, saying a special thank you to active and retired military, and recruiting a few new members to volunteer with the lodge.
When President and CEO of boat manufacturer Cape Horn/Fabbro Marine Chris Fabbro realized he needed room for his business to grow, he said he feared he would have to leave Santa Rosa County even going as far away as North Carolina.
