Navarre teen carries out ROTC tradition
Navarre High School senior and ROTC cadet lieutenant Gabriella Rice has been a member of the school’s ROTC all four years of high school. She is the highest-ranking female in the battalion of 150 cadets, serving as operations officer and commander of the drill team.
One of the duties of the operations officer is to organize a traditional military ball every year.
Courthouse construction provides classroom tool
As 6,000-pound wall panels were being placed on the new Santa Rosa County (SRC) courthouse behind them, county commissioner Dave Piech and other county officials recorded an educational video for SRC students.
The video was filmed Feb. 26 and included interviews with the construction workers, project managers and architects behind the courthouse construction project.
School quarantine measures ease slightly, parents still angry
Slight revisions have been made to ease the process for students returning to school after being quarantined for a school-based COVID exposure, according to Santa Rosa Superintendent of Schools Karen Barber.
She told the school board Thursday night that students can now return to school with a negative COVID PCR test at Day 8.
Proposed rezoning will move students in six south-end schools
On March 9, parents will have a chance to tell the Santa Rosa County School Board what they think about the proposed changes to school zones in the south end of the county.
Assistant Superintendent for Administrative Services Joey Harrell can’t predict exactly what parents will say about the plan he and his staff have worked on for months.
New school, new principal
Creative teachers + math problems = food drive
Students at Holley-Navarre Intermediate School, under the direction of teachers Elizabeth Baer and Amanda Nelms, recently collected and donated 378 pounds of canned food to the Manna Food Pantry in Pensacola.
The food pantry has a great need right now due to the effects of COVID-19 and Hurricane Sally.