An unfamiliar truck passes slowly by your house, looking around your yard and house as he drives by. A solicitor comes to your house and attempts to talk their way into your home. A distraught person rings your doorbell in the middle of the night asking to use your phone. A burglar breaks in and is surprised to find someone home, and that homeowner is assaulted. All of these scenarios have happened in Navarre during the past several months.
While nearly all other wireless providers had already foregone offering two-year service contracts, the large cellphone service-provider, AT&T, has continued to offer this option for its customers. However, in a recent nationwide policy change, AT&T announced early this year that as of Jan. 8, the popular cellphone service-provider would no longer offer such contracts. The change came for a number of reasons, all of them seemingly beneficial for the AT&T customer.
Questions about accounting and certain employee expenses are drawing more oversight of Fairpoint Regional Utility System, a collective that is mutually owned by four area water companies.
On March 10, a Black Hawk helicopter with seven Marines and four soldiers crashed into the Santa Rosa Sound during a training mission killing all 11 on board. The UH-60M helicopter was piloted by a Louisiana National Guard Crew. The helicopter took off from the Destin Executive Airport for a routine training mission.
After completing its best regular season in school history with an 18-2-2 record, Navarre’s girls soccer team won its first district title, edging Niceville 5-4 in a game decided by penalty kicks. Tori Martino scored the game-winning penalty kick.
At the annual awards and installation banquet 2014 chamber chairman Jim Taylor passed the gavel to Regina Carter of Gulf Power Company, who served as chairman of the 2015 executive board. The event honored businesses and individuals who had made a difference throughout the year. Ambassador of the Year was awarded to Linda Fusco, All Phase Cleaning; Mentor of the Year to Jan Clark, Made For You Gift Venue; Volunteers of the Year to Cherie Rice, Coldwell Banker United Realtors and Sarah Hasty of New York Life Insurance Company; Director of the Year to Norm Crowder of St. Rosa Sound RV Resort; Spirit of Navarre to James Dabney of East River Smokehouse; Member of the Year to Navarre Area Board of Realtors; Business of the Year to Navarre Drywall; Citizen of the Year to Shirley Brown; Corporate Citizen of the Year to Bill Crouch of Tech Star Systems, Inc.; and the Legends Award was given to Frankie and Barbara Gibbs.
Tommy Leggett left quite an impression in the final football game of his high school career, coming through with a leave-it-all-on-the-field effort in the Subway High School All-Star Game Friday night in Fort Walton Beach.
