Attending church services is often a family activity. However, for families with a special needs child, the thought of getting through an hour or more of sitting still and being quiet can be too daunting.
West Navarre Primary School second grade teacher Laura Cunniff always knew she would be a teacher. Cunniff’s natural teaching ability paired with a knack for keeping her students engaged and interested in the classroom has earned her the title of WNPS Teacher of the Year.
The dedication ceremony for the June Ates Arena was held last at the new 68,000-square-foot facility located at East Milton Park. The $1.23 million facility was built using District 2 recreation funds.
Santa Rosa Commissioners had aimed to keep only three proposed sites in consideration for a planned new county courthouse. Instead, the board decided to keep four parcels in the running at its meeting last Thursday.
Florida’s black bear population is ballooning back from a population estimated at just 300 in the 1970s. The thriving population has since exploded tenfold to roughly 3,000- prompting removal from state’s list of threatened species in August of 2012. As a result, the number of incidents involving bears throughout the state is escalating and spreading into populated areas.
Longtime Navarre residents and business owners Betty and Greg Fountain are realizing a five-years-in-the-making dream come true. Their land off of Highway 98, west of Joybrook Road is being cleared for a 250 unit “Class A” luxury apartment complex on 16 acres that they have owned for eight years.