Tomorrow morning, Navarre locals Doug, Deborah and Paul Gilmore will wake with the sun in the heart of rural Nicaragua to begin a long day of feeding, building and preaching to the impoverished locals.
Santa Rosa’s roughly 130,000 voters will have the opportunity to cast their ballots for a variety of state candidates, county officials and local-option sales taxes Aug. 30 in the county’s primary election.
Longtime Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce member Ralph Agnew helped spearhead an effort to have the Florida Department of Transportation do a traffic analysis in areas along U.S. Highway 98 that, as Agnew states, “have been prone to accidents for years.”
Santa Rosa County Emergency Management communications are getting an upgrade this month thanks to a new early warning system and App initiated by the Florida Department of Emergency Management.
At the top of the travel itinerary it says, “Take pride in how far you have come and have faith in how far you will go.” Five Navarre High School 2016 graduates are going far, both literally and in their life plans. The teens are embarking on the trip of a lifetime, described by them as a coming-of-age trip of sorts. Riley Roberson, Patrick Keele, Jeff Holland, Jacob Blea and Gabe Morrill left Friday morning at 2 a.m. on a 20-day journey with their sights set on a few national parks, including Mt. Rushmore, Yosemite, Mt. Zion and Olympic National Park. First stop is Kansas City, Mo. for some world-famous barbecue then it’s off to The Badlands in South Dakota. The group will travel to Wyoming, Washington, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and back home again camping all along the way.
Raising a teenager is an expensive responsibility for parents all over the United States. The cost of braces, a car, school activities and even college tuition can break the most modest of budgets. On top of that, insuring a teen driver in Florida can add an additional 82 percent to the cost of premiums according to a recent study by insuranceQuotes.
According to lead guard Charles Marek, the 2016 beach renourishment has had a significant impact to this year’s beach visitors. “We have had many more people on the beach this year,” Marek said. “They have heard about the renourishment and want to see for themselves.”