We are happy to bring you the Navarre High School graduating class of 2017. There have only been seventeen graduating classes of Navarre High School and this is the 17th year that we have featured their graduating class. I’m glad that we have been here to document history in the making. Today’s news is tomorrow’s history.
We have been part of many professional boards in our 17 years of existence, and we have never seen anything like this. The cover-ups, deceit and outright lies leave us wondering what will become of HNWS when it all comes to light.
Another high school sports season is history, and to the athletes in the class of 2017, I wish you the best of luck in the next chapter of your lives. I imagine looking back on it now, you probably feel like your high school years just zoomed by.
It is the common refrain when new construction comes to Navarre. The idea that this or that might be built near my castle is an insult. We have heard it discussed before with officials on everything from signage for apartments, a wildlife refuge to private schools.
This issue is our next to our last issue of our 16th year. Soon, sweet 16 will be in our rear-view mirror and 17 will be upon us. According to songs about being 17, it is a time to be innocent but experienced, courageous but afraid, naïve but jaded and beautiful yet lonely. According to pop culture – it is a time of transition and change. We will see about that. I think we will just skip the confused, lonely, afraid, jaded and naïve characteristics. We do have a surprise coming up for our 17th year and it does have to do with a song, but we will keep that under our proverbial hats for now.
Before leaving office President Obama commuted: (1) The sentence of traitor Bailey Manning. He leaked sensitive national security information putting our troops at risk. (2) The sentence of Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Rivera, serving 50 years in prison for plotting to overthrow the U.S. Government, whose group killed 4 Americans in a New York City bombing in1975, and (3) pardoned and commuted the sentences of hundreds of criminal cocaine and heroin dealers. Many were outraged; I voiced mine!
More than 2.7 million criminal records will be sealed and the arrest records of hundreds of thousands of people will be concealed under a bill heading to Gov. Rick Scott’s desk.
s there such a thing as “absolute”? The dictionary states that “good” and “evil” are “absolutes” when using the word as a noun. Mathematics is absolute because it historically has only offered true answers to correct equations that answer many of society’s and science’s questions. Religion and mythology are not absolutes because it requires faith for their existence. Mythology is aligned to a period of time when humans worshipped Gods of the land, sea and air. The Bible is a mixed book of religion, history and moral teachings but both are associated with the history of the advancement of man.
