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Holley-Navarre Water System breaks ground on renovations

Written by Kaitie Kiger on January 11, 2022. Posted in Business, News.

Growth is evident in Navarre and the same is true for Holley-Navarre Water System (HNWS).

The headquarters on Turkey Bluff Road as well as its warehouse and joint operations building will be getting a renovation in the coming months.

“This is a momentous occasion for us,” CEO Dr. Dallas Peavey Jr. said at a Jan. 11 ceremony.

Longtime Press Gazette publisher dies: ‘Rest well, Fletch. You’re already missed’

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on January 6, 2022. Posted in News.

For more than 30 years, if you visited the office of the Santa Rosa Press Gazette, you’d likely meet Jim Fletcher.

He was editor before he was publisher. He was passionate about Milton and about local news and about his “family” of employees. On Jan. 5, his family learned that Fletcher, who was hospitalized on New Year’s Day, had died of cancer at an area hospital a few days later. He was 64.

Jayah Jones puts forth gutsy effort as Navarre rolls to first win of 2022

Written by Brian Lester on January 6, 2022. Posted in Sports.

Jayah Jones had a bag of ice wrapped around one of her legs and was still feeling a little under the weather late Tuesday night.

But neither pain nor illness kept Navarre’s sophomore star from putting forth a gutsy performance against Choctaw.

Snowbirds receive ‘warm’ welcome to Navarre

Written by Staff Reporters on January 4, 2022. Posted in Community.

Dozens of ‘snowbirds’ from across the country gathered at the Navarre Beach Visitor Information Center on Tuesday morning to receive a ‘warm’ welcome from officials.

Iconic Navarre homeless man led complicated life

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on December 28, 2021. Posted in News.

After a lifetime of hard living, a homeless local man who loved Navarre has died.

Known by some as Billy the Beach Bum, Billy James Joseph Price was 41 when his body was found Dec. 20 in his campsite at Pensacola’s Graffiti Bridge.

Discovering the real history of Navarre: When Navarre was Eagan

Written by Staff Reporters on December 23, 2021. Posted in Community.

The area of South Santa Rosa County that we call Navarre currently considers the surveying and platting of Guy H. Wyman in 1925 as our beginnings.

Navarre Press has further traced one of its earlier forms of existence to a settlement called Eagan.

RX Express Pharmacy now offering COVID vaccines

Written by Staff Reporters on December 21, 2021. Posted in Advertorial, Healthy Living.

Nicklaus McMellon, PharmD, CPh, started shadowing his father Paul, RPh, when the family business Rx Express Pharmacy opened in 2002. Now 28, he is the full-time pharmacist.

“I love it. I would never do anything else,” Nick said.

Forget holiday decorations: This Navarre yard is colorful year-around

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

Larry the Navarre Beach giraffe on Gulf Boulevard isn’t the only long-necked attraction in town. In addition to the glimpse drivers often get of the giraffes at Gulf Breeze Zoo, there’s a giraffe made out of recycled auto parts in Martha Powell’s yard.

Powell, who lives on Ferris Drive just a few doors down from the Holley by the Sea boundary, has named her giraffe Emily and dressed her in a Santa hat for the season.

Piech gives updates on future Navarre Beach hotel, Elevate Navarre and sidewalks

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on December 13, 2021. Posted in News.

During District 4 Commissioner Dave Piech’s monthly Zoom meeting Dec. 13, he gave updates on everything from the status of sidewalks near East Bay K-8 to what he’d heard about Elevate Navarre.

Here are some of the highlights:

20 years later: After taking care of Navarre’s pets for two decades, local woman changes business focus

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on December 11, 2021. Posted in Business.

After 20 years of pet-sitting in the Navarre area, Alice Coulter is changing the name and focus of her business. Instead of large birds, reptiles, cats and dogs, the owner of Emerald Coast Critter Sitter is going to focus on the first three beginning in April.