Unless you are glued to the tube watching your favorite basketball team, March is the time of year when everyone is ready to charge out on the beach piers and jetties to take part in the spring runs of Spanish mackerel, bluefish, king mackerel, cobia and tarpon.
Susie Smith* has fallen on hard times this year. The single mother lost her job so any funds that come in go straight to putting food on the table and keeping a roof over the heads of her two children.
Reaction was swift and hilarious March 12 when it was announced the snack cakes division of Hostess Brands had accepted the $410 million bid of two investment firms to snatch it out of bankruptcy and restart the factory ovens to make Twinkies and Ding-Dongs.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced March 12 the appointment of Gary Clark and reappointment of Jerome “Jerry” Pater to the Northwest Florida Water Management District.
Santa Rosa County Commissioners did not act on the Tourist Development Council’s recommendation to hire Denise Haywald, Navarre resident, for the community relations/social media coordinator during the March 14 commission meeting.
The Navarre-Santa Rosa Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) added nine members to its 85-plus squad after class-ending exercises March 17 at the E.H. Pullum Senior Center.
The drive from Milton to Navarre on State Road 87 is a long one and until the driver reaches U.S. Highway 98, there is nothing to tell the driver he or she has entered Navarre.
Santa Rosa County could become the first county in the state of Florida designated as a SAFE Community through the National Safety Council. Evaluators are meeting today with local coordinators of the pursuit, led by county plans chief for emergency management Daniel Hahn.
Although Oliver Semmes graduated from Pensacola High School and Alabama Polytechnic Institute with a degree in industrial management and a Navy ROTC commission as an ensign, then retired from the Navy a captain, there’s no bronze statue of him like the one in Mobile of his great-great grandfather, naval hero, Admiral Raphael Semmes.
