Opinion Archive

The Navarre Garden Club is sponsoring “Santa’s Workshop Craft Fair” this Saturday at the Navarre Conference Center.   Goodies for Thanksgiving will be available at Ye Olde Bake Shoppe within the Craft Fair.   Children’s Activities will entertain the kiddies and Santa will be visiting.

We observed a group of individuals picking up trash along East Bay Boulevard Saturday, Nov. 14.  It was not obvious who they were or what organization they represented, but what a super job they did.  A special thank you to all of you that took on this task!  When we drove along the road today, there were numerous orange-colored plastic bags full of trash, secured and ready to be picked up.  The roadside looks great!

What follows is the result of an editorial in the Nov. 5, 2015 edition of the Navarre Press.

We are introducing something new to the paper this week. We have a first-person story by our Copy Editor, Carmen Reynolds. This is in an effort to introduce our staff to our readers on subjects we think are of interest to you. People forget real people work at Navarre Press. We are human and have many of the same cares, interests and responsibilities as many of you. Your neighbors work here; our children went to or are attending the same schools; we worship together; play together; and we all care about Navarre and our community.

This past Monday our county commissioners voted to enter employment negotiations with Tony Gomillion to replace long-time county administrator Hunter Walker.  Tony has been a department director with the county for 29 years, both as public services director and as environmental control director. 

During the last Democratic candidate debate a question was asked to all candidates. The question was do all lives matter or do just black lives matter? I was astonished by the answer. All candidates except one answered black lives matter. The only candidate who responded all lives matter is no longer in the race.

In the past two weekends, Navarre has seen more than a foot of rain.  When the remnants of Hurricane Patricia swept through Oct. 25 – 26, nearly 7 inches of rain fell.  The rain totals of Halloween weekend were nearly that at 6.41 inches with some areas receiving 7 inches.  Rewind to Sept. 28 and in a flash flood event, Navarre received a staggering  7 inches in merely  six hours.  Total it all up and it equals almost 2 feet of water.  And under the water is muck. 

We have another issue that is full of newsy news. Everything from a plane landing on Navarre Beach and running over our already dead fish, the red tide fish kill, to a shooting, and a grand-theft auto. We would have more information if those that had it were a little more forthcoming. However, much of what we found out, we found out ourselves, and we were there. 

We found some very spooky local stories to share with you this week. We had more, that are even spookier – including the obituaries that go with them – but…we had to wait for more information. However, the stories are going to be groundbreaking and change the known history of our area. Let me rephrase that; let’s just say that the previous “recorded” history isn’t what it has been presented to be by past self-proclaimed historians. 

In this week’s issue we include the findings of the investigation into the Black Hawk helicopter crash in the Santa Rosa Sound in March.  The findings of the report indicate the pilots were to blame for the crash that left 11 service members onboard dead because they disobeyed direct orders by flying into worsening weather.