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Commissioners get beach title ball rolling

Wednesday, 27 October 2010 13:00 Written by Ken Garner

Many questions remain unanswered, but a new effort to let Santa Rosa Island leaseholders own their property is underway.

“This isn’t going to happen overnight,” Escambia County Commission Chairman Grover Robinson IV said Monday in Milton during a joint meeting of Escambia and Santa Rosa county commissioners. “We’re not advocating any one position or another, this is about being able to give our leaseholders more options.”

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Robotics team makes a comeback

Wednesday, 27 October 2010 12:57 Written by Jennifer Hensley

Call them the comeback kids.

Just last year, the students at Holley-Navarre Middle School didn’t have a robotics team, a club dedicated to all things engineering, technology and science.

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Survivor story: How one woman fought the breast cancer battle -- and won

Wednesday, 27 October 2010 12:54 Written by Jennifer Hensley

At 48 years old, Wendy Williams was a lot of things: A wife, a mother, a sister.

Now, two years later, Williams can add one more thing to her list: Survivor.

It’s a title she didn’t expect to receive.

For more on this story, check out the Oct. 28 edition of the Navarre Press or subscribe online.

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Family TRIs harder

Wednesday, 27 October 2010 12:35 Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 13:06 Written by Ken Garner

Joe Nettleton shouldn’t have looked down.

He’d finished the first leg of the Santa Rosa Island Triathlon, a 600-yard swim, was peddling through the 16th mile of an 18-mile bike course and was thinking ahead to running the final 3.2 miles to finish his first triathlon.

He shouldn’t have looked down, but he did.

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