Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida presented the Ron Mobayed Military Big of the Year award to Master Sgt. Carl E. Byrd Sunday at First City Church. The Big of the Year award is presented to the Big Brother or Big Sister who has gone above and beyond as a positive role model.
Walk into a Navarre home these days and you are quite likely to be greeted by a smell you cannot quite place. A few more steps in and you might even see a slight mist spraying into a room that is responsible for that smell. That aroma comes from essential oils. Essential oils are on a whole other level than your average air freshener. Making your home smell nice is just one of the many added benefits of essential oils, which became a $6 billion industry in 2015.
The number of Santa Rosa homes torn down to build new and bigger ones has nearly doubled since 2012, and the trend is evident from Milton to Gulf Breeze.
He rode the bus almost every day, save for the few times here and there where he’d have to be at the high school early because of an ROTC commitment. More often than not, though, you would find Rowan Cabanlong in a familiar seat, the one right behind bus driver Heidi Gourley.
Unable to stay with the state-approved standard for disposing of treated wastewater by spraying effluent on a golf course or piping it into ponds, Holley Navarre Water System is nearing a deal for a major expansion of disposal capacity.
In yet another indicator that the economy is bouncing back, one segment of Navarre attorney Keith Kirkpatrick’s law practice fell by about two-thirds last year.
Dementia affects nearly 50 million people around the world — that number is expected to rise to 75 million by 2030 — and the unforgiving disease can take its toll on the caregivers of those battling the disease as much as it can on the people living with it.
