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Local park part of $11 million makeover

Written by Staff Reporters on August 21, 2014. Posted in News.

Blackwater River State Park near Milton is one of 18 state parks and trails across Florida that has received an upgrade during the past 10 months. The project, to renovate restrooms and install a new pavilion roof, cost nearly $100,000.

Senior fitness goes Hawaiian

Written by Staff Reporters on August 21, 2014. Posted in News.

Senior fitness had a Hawaiian twist Friday when seniors at the Pullum YMCA wore grass skirts, Hawaiian shirts and coconut bras for their weekly Friday fitness class.

Healthy lunch help from the experts

Written by Staff Reporters on August 21, 2014. Posted in News.

Forty-one percent of students take their lunches to school. In February, the Government Accountability Office reported that participation in the National School Lunch Program had declined 3.7 percent over the last three school years.

Momentum Church announces Navarre campus pastor

Written by Staff Reporters on August 21, 2014. Posted in Faith.

Momentum Church has named a campus pastor for Momentum Navarre, which will begin meeting next month at Navarre High School. Lead pastor Tim Payne announced Alex Velarde has accepted the position of campus pastor.

Enlist Act betrayal

Written by Staff Reporters on August 21, 2014. Posted in Editorial, Opinion.

The planned draconian military drawdown will take us to pre-WWII levels. Our economy is in shambles. Pundits and politicians falsely claim we don’t have adequate highly skilled foreign workers while highly skilled American workers can’t get hired, and thousands more “children” pour across our porous Southern border to eventually compete with us, our children and grandchildren for jobs.

It is what it is

Written by Staff Reporters on August 21, 2014. Posted in Editorial, Opinion.

Wow! If you want to see people get excited in the Navarre area, then all you have to do is use the “I” word — Incorporation.

‘Charlie Brown’ Memorial Highway coming soon

Written by Staff Reporters on August 21, 2014. Posted in Community.

Navarre area resident Warren “Charlie” Brown was a well-respected local leader who did much to benefit his community before his passing in 2011.

Jobless rates up across the region

Written by Staff Reporters on August 21, 2014. Posted in Business.

All area counties saw increases in their unemployment rates from June to July 2014. For Santa Rosa, Escambia and Okaloosa counties, July marked the third consecutive month that their unemployment rates had increased. Unemployment rates in Santa Rosa and Escambia Counties are above the state and national averages, while Okaloosa and Walton counties remain below.

Boaters ‘all in’ for Poker run

Written by John Richardson on August 21, 2014. Posted in Beach.

Great weather brought in a huge crowd at the 2014 Emerald Coast Poker Run on Aug. 16 at Juana’s Pagodas. “This is one of our biggest weekends of the year,” said Kevin Rudzki of Juana’s Pagodas.

Melvin pushes elevators for overpass

Written by Staff Reporters on August 21, 2014. Posted in News.

Santa Rosa County Commission Chairman Jim Melvin is pushing Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) officials to consider the county’s proposal to include elevators in a Navarre pedestrian overpass, which could be constructed in 2018.