Business women of Navarre built connections and discussed self-worth with author and motivational speaker Linda Sizemore Wednesday, July 20 at this month’s Women 2 Women Connecting Group.
At the top of the travel itinerary it says, “Take pride in how far you have come and have faith in how far you will go.” Five Navarre High School 2016 graduates are going far, both literally and in their life plans. The teens are embarking on the trip of a lifetime, described by them as a coming-of-age trip of sorts. Riley Roberson, Patrick Keele, Jeff Holland, Jacob Blea and Gabe Morrill left Friday morning at 2 a.m. on a 20-day journey with their sights set on a few national parks, including Mt. Rushmore, Yosemite, Mt. Zion and Olympic National Park. First stop is Kansas City, Mo. for some world-famous barbecue then it’s off to The Badlands in South Dakota. The group will travel to Wyoming, Washington, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and back home again camping all along the way.
According to lead guard Charles Marek, the 2016 beach renourishment has had a significant impact to this year’s beach visitors. “We have had many more people on the beach this year,” Marek said. “They have heard about the renourishment and want to see for themselves.”
The neighborhood called “Robledal Estates” on East Bay Boulevard may seem like just another waterfront neighborhood. However, it was the scene the oldest documented history of the area we now call Navarre.
It’s a parent’s worst nightmare that almost came true. On Thursday, a Navarre girl told Santa Rosa Sheriff’s deputies that an adult male between the age of 50 and 55 with black/gray hair tried to abduct her on Thursday afternoon in the area of Ortega and Shipton streets in Navarre.
In a move that would eliminate the need for a controversial wastewater disposal site being proposed in the Williams Creek neighborhood, Holley-Navarre Water System is exploring a deal to spread effluent on fields owned by South Santa Rosa Utility.
The Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce and its CEO Judy Morehead are facing a lawsuit filed last week by Tony Hughes, president of Beach Community Bank and chairman of the Military Affairs Council of the chamber.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is pressing Holley-Navarre Water System (HNWS) to build additional wastewater disposal capacity, but the utility’s best long-term solution has languished within the Santa Rosa County bureaucracy.