Though administrators awaited the 2010-2011 school year with trepidation thanks to tougher class-size requirements, principals in the South End agree that the year got off to a good start.

According to David Crissey, vice principal at West Navarre Intermediate School, the first day was smooth sailing for the more than 750 students who walked in the school’s front doors at the start of the day.

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An independent agency on Monday took responsibility for settling oil spill claims, but BP will be in Northwest Florida “as long as it’s necessary.”

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Holley-Navarre Fire District employees, including Chief Ron Norton, will get a 5-percent pay raise beginning Oct. 1.

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 A 28-year-old Gulf Breeze woman was arrested on three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for giving adolescent kids alcohol on three different occasions.

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