A family from Pensacola is working to change an ordinance that would have forced them to find another home for their pet pot-bellied pig named Buttercup.
Construction of a new snorkeling reef began Feb. 27 in Perdido Key. The artificial reef is located near a public access area off Sandy Key Drive. Funded by the Local Option Sales Tax (LOST), construction is expected to be complete within the next few days.
The first Run, Walk or Roll Mobility 5k will be held at 8 a.m., March 29 on Navarre Beach and organizer David Raney said the event is being held to help folks locally and worldwide who are need of assistive devices to increase their mobility.
Experts may disagree on the exact percentage but some estimate as many as 50 percent of marriages in America end in divorce or separation. For area residents going through the painful experience, help is available from an international program called DivorceCare, which is hosted locally by the First Baptist Church of Navarre.
For Gulf Breeze Middle School student Tanner Williams, an interest in videogames has led him to discover a new talent for making and editing gameplay videos on his YouTube channel, LegendOfGuiga.
District 4 Santa Rosa County Commissioner Jim Melvin discussed the recent courthouse location selection at a Santa Rosa Federated Republican Women (SRFRW) luncheon Feb. 25 at The Club at Hidden Creek.
Setting our clocks forward an hour before we go to bed Saturday night for Daylight Savings Time doesn’t have to just be a reminder of the hour of sleep we will lose. Joe Early, fire inspector with the Holley-Navarre Fire District, wants to remind residents that springing forward is also a good time to change the batteries in smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.
Swarms of revelers lined Stewart Street in Milton Feb. 27 in hopes of catching beads and Moon Pies. Main Street Milton, a downtown revitalization organization, hosted their popular annual Mardi Gras parade.