I just completed a summer sermon series in the Psalms, a common practice among churches. I was motivated by the need to preach more from the Old Testament and a desire to keep up my skills with the Hebrew language.
This past week we heard of the passing of Navarre icon Tommy Cox – the owner of Tommy’s Sno-balls. For decades, on any given day in the warm months, you would see carloads of people enjoying the cold treats at the foot of Navarre Beach bridge. During the school year he would reward honor roll students with a free sno-ball, he hired high school students to work the stand and learn about business and customer service, he volunteered his time with the Navarre Youth Sports Association, and there is story after story of how he impacted lives across our area. We are thankful he was part of our community – or maybe we were part of his. Either way, he will be missed – a lot. You can read more about Tommy’s life on page 2A.
WSRE PBS will host a free film screening of “Florida Road Trip: Pensacola” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 3, in the station’s Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio at Pensacola State College.
Navarre takes aim at winning its first game of the season tonight when it battles Mosley at Tommy Oliver Stadium in Panama City.
Kickoff is 7 p.m. for the Raiders, who have been shutout in the first two weeks of the season but have won the last two meetings against the Dolphins (3-0).
Tallahassee – Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office this week argued that a judge should allow Florida to continue challenging a new federal rule that requires more gun sellers to be licensed and run background checks on buyers, contending the rule causes a financial hit to the state.
Navarre’s Taylor Netro is off to a strong start to her sophomore season and that success continued in a match against Catholic and Northview Tuesday afternoon at Hidden Creek.
Navarre High School, in conjunction with Locklin Technical College, is bringing a welding course to campus. The full course, which will be roughly two semesters in length, will start next school year (SY 2025-26) and serve as another addition to the high school’s already stacked line-up of career and technical education (CTE) courses and opportunities.
That’s one of the questions Kevin Laliberte asks participants in his biannual surfing classes. The classes, which are taken over a five-week course, are meant to help veterans and soon-to-retire active-duty members of the U.S. military find themselves post-service through “surf therapy.”