Opinion Archive

We made it everyone. The curtain has been lowered on the 2020-21 high school sports season.

Normally, the end of the season isn’t a cause for celebration, but this one is different.

The blooms and leaves have confirmed the year’s progress toward the summer. The rising temperatures and lengthening days have been a boon to the birds and animals, too.

The blossoms in Santa Rosa County are popular with insects and arachnids for a variety of reasons. Some insects enjoy the nectar and pollen, using it to great effect.

Once again, the conducting of government business on a local level has been under attack. At the Santa Rosa School Board meeting the (morning) of 5/3/2021.

HNWS must get out of the golf course business. 

When the Eglin project comes to fruition, the disposal capacity of HNWS will more than double, and there will still be room at Eglin to double that capacity again. 

I made an error in my first letter to the editor in that I did not include the increase in the price of service. I was paying $69 and change for one trash/garbage unit twice a week and one recycle unit once a week.

Most of us grew up learning that we are responsible for our actions and there is a penalty to pay for inappropriate actions.

On my 16th birthday, I went straight from the driver’s license bureau to the Howard Johnson’s by the interstate and got my first job.

Back then, that’s what teens did. They worked in restaurants and were grateful for the opportunity.

I am a Navarre resident and very concerned about the lack of planning for commercial development — specifically the one on 98 from Culver’s to the Baptist Medical Park/ER.

It’s been a crazier week than usual in this business with everything from small sinkholes to buried bodies, fatal wrecks and a bank robbery.

We also had a car drive into a Holley by the Sea house, and then drive away.

Going “green” is all the rage these days. Businesses, politicians, public figures and more are promoting their commitment to ecological purity and environmental quality.

In nature there is plenty of green this time of year, especially the chlorophyl-based pigment.