Opinion Archive

Sometimes residents and visitors are concerned about a surprise encounter with one of the 45 species of native snakes. In the cooler weather these coldblooded reptiles are unable to avoid the chance meeting which usually ends badly, at least for the snake.

In reality, it is far more likely to find a weed given a name based on one of its features which mimic a snake. One of these is corn snakeroot, a native wildflower currently blooming in Santa Rosa County.

Dansby Swanson sat in a dugout on one of those hot and humid summer afternoons here in Florida that leaves you feeling as if the planet is on fire.

It was 2016 and Swanson was in town with the Mississippi Braves for their series against the Pensacola Blue Wahoos. Prior to one of the games that week, the highly touted Braves prospect was made available to the media.

Whenever I talk to my kids – or anyone else’s kids – about the future, I encourage them to find jobs they enjoy. You can work a job for a paycheck only so long before your soul dies a little.

I know, that sounds dramatic, but it’s true. Or at least it has been for me.

Creeping is a term that implies malevolence which concludes with an unpleasant surprise.

There are many creeping impersonators preparing to lurk in neighborhoods with faux menace, and a few shifty weeds in the landscape.

We have a new team member in our graphics department, Dan Bontrager. He worked with Momentum Church with their graphics for 18 months and before that worked with Pensacola Christian College and Navy Federal Credit Union.

You can read his bio along with all the other team members at https://navarrepress.com/about/.

Monday, Oct. 25 your State Representative said HE makes the decisions for our community. 

He said in public, that it doesn’t matter what the Constitution says.

A little over three years ago, my wife and I made the decision to sell our home in Missouri and move to Navarre.

The area was not really a mystery to us, as my sister and brother-in-law had lived here before moving just down the road to Shalimar.