Holley-Navarre’s Fire District has grown exponentially since 2010, encompassing nearly 50 square miles with only two fire stations and five firefighters between the two at any given time.  And while the 50 square miles hasn’t expanded, the number of residents has, nearly doubling.  Yet, the district is still staffed at the same level as it was all those years ago.

Developer Steve Hering is seeking a zoning variance on 8-and-half vacant acres of Navarre Beach to build a 70-house subdivision he calls “Topaz Beach-An Island Community.”

Santa Rosa County Sheriff Wendell Hall is in his fourth year of frying up fish for the fish fry the Holley Navarre Senior Center puts on as a fundraiser.

There’s a new celebrity fitness trainer in town. If Autumn Navarro’s not a celebrity trainer, she’s only one degree of separation away. Navarro, the newest personal trainer at the Pullum Family YMCA, spent nine months training Georgeanna Johnson last year for ABC’s hit show Extreme Weight Loss with Chris and Heidi Powell.