While most of the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier is empty on a chilly winter morning, the octagon at the end holds a row of poles fitted with massive reels. Several fishermen sit waiting for any sign their bait has been taken.
Lawrence “Larry” Keefe, of Shalimar took the oath of office the morning of Jan. 9 from Chief District Judge Mark E. Walker to become the 41st U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
The start of a new season is less than a month away for the University of West Florida softball team. The Argonauts will be under the direction of a new head coach in Ashliegh McLean, who spent the last four seasons as an assistant at UWF.
If you had an organization you wanted to be successful, it is unlikely that you would look among the carefree surfers riding the waves off our local beaches for the person to lead it. And if this organization were a new church, it is very unlikely that you would look for that leader on dimly lit streets among the drug dealers. And how likely would be it that you would choose a reluctant leader, someone who saw himself as a good “second.” Well, when the one ultimately responsible for the choosing is God, unlikely and reluctant are no obstacles, but rather an opportunity for Him to glorify himself greatly by performing an amazing, work of transformation. Randy Pitman is a self-described unlikely and one-time-reluctant in whom God is performing that transforming work. Randy is the lead pastor of the vital, growing congregation known as Coastline Calvary Chapel, Navarre.
The planned K-8 school on Elkhart Drive will open by 2021 with a few missing pieces: no completed classrooms for middle-schoolers and a cafeteria without cooking equipment.
Women leading the charge for journalism in Pakistan stopped for coffee and conversation in Pensacola with local media members as part of a diplomacy trip across the United States.
The price of a postage stamp for first class mailings of a letter (1 oz.) is set to rise to 55 cents January 27 if the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) passes the increase. Currently, the first-class rate is 50 cents. It will be the first increase since 2014, when postage stamps went up to the 50-cent mark, up from 48 cents.
