Opinion Archive

Once again, our newspaper is addressing the topic of suicide, specifically athletes.

We find ourselves talking about this way too often, or maybe not enough, or perhaps only when it happens.

I’ve been running between all three newspaper locations, and I’m often in Navarre, Milton and Crestview in the same day.

At the first of the year as I was visiting all of the properties, I decided that it was very difficult to drive carefully and pay attention to the road while also paying attention to everything in the three organizations.

Chris Williams is out after three years as the head coach of the Navarre baseball team.

He has stepped down to spend more time with family.

I have been a musician since being introduced to the guitar at age 11.

I studied music in high school, advanced in music theory, then pursued a music education degree at a university.

There is a gun show this weekend, Saturday and Sunday June 4 and 5 at the Santa Rosa County Auditorium, Milton, FL from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Ads were placed by the gentleman that runs the thirty plus year old gun show more than a month ago and have been running ever since.

When the pandemic began the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) extended free meals to school-age children all year long, including the summer months.

The program will no longer be available at the end of this school year and many food insecure families are now facing a summer without school food assistance programs.

“It’s a win-win arrangement,” Jack’s mother said enthusiastically to a friend.

A party to their conversation, I nodded my head in agreement and added, “It sure is!”

A lot of people point to how important the rules are until those rules are no longer important because they aren’t convenient.

If the FHSAA is going to have a rule that a player ejected from a game must sit out at least the next two, then there shouldn’t be any doorway that can be opened to change it.

You all remember Quentin Randolph.

Especially in 2019 when he took NCAA Division II football by storm and helped propel the University of West Florida football team to its first national championship.