A local Navarre man was killed in action in Afghanistan on Nov.16. U.S. Army PFC Matthew Colin was deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. 

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Gulf Breeze High School swim team members Adam Gunn, Adam Foley, Luke Means, and PJ Dunne won gold medals today at the Florida State Championship Swim Meet for division 2-A at the YMCA Aquatic Center in Orlando, Florida. The boys' relay team swam the 200 Freestyle Relay in 1:27.04, beating their prelims time of 1:28.18.
Other results at the championship meet include: PJ Dunne placed 3rd individually in 200 Freestyle with a time of 1:40.63 and 4th individually in 100 Freestyle with a time of 46.33. Adam Gunn placed 5th individually in 100 Fly with a time of 51.72. The Gulf Breeze Boys 400-yard Freestyle Relay team members, Adam Gunn, Adam Foley, Michael Lillo, and PJ Dunne, placed sixth overall with a time of 3:17.59. The Gulf Breeze Boys team placed 6th out of 55 teams in attendance at the state championship. 

Katherine Edwards, the coach of the Gulf Breeze Swim Team, lives in Navarre and has a daughter on the Navarre High School swim team. This is Coach Edwards' first year as the head coach of the Gulf Breeze High School Swim Team.

The Blue Angels C-130 Hercules known as Fat Albert flew a very special visitor on Nov. 11. Navarre Press writer Joanna Hammond escorted Stanely on the flight where they both experienced zero gravity and more than 2 Gs of force. 

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A fatal accident on U.S. Highway 98 at Whispering Pines Boulevard in Navarre snarled traffic for more than three hours on Nov. 10 after a Santa Rosa County school bus slammed into another vehicle.

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