Four months after a 36-year-old homeless man was found dead near the Navarre Beach Causeway, an autopsy determined that Jeremy Wheatman died of alcohol toxicity.

When Firehouse Subs cashiers ask if customers want to round up to the nearest dollar, it truly goes to lifesaving causes.

Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation® recently provided a $25,835 grant to the Holley-Navarre Fire District and presented the results of the money Jan. 11 at the fire department. The funding went toward the purchase of battery-powered rescue equipment, which will be used to shave off time and ensure greater lifesaving capabilities for first responders in the community.

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.

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.