Mom’s killer seeks life insurance payout
On Christmas Eve of 2013, Brandon Aydelott, a 17-year-old boy suffering from schizophrenia-induced hallucinations, beat and stabbed his mother to death in the doorway of her Gulf Breeze home.
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First sea turtle nest on Panhandle this season
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in News.
Turtle Patrollers were in for a big surprise early Saturday morning. The first sea turtle of Navarre’s nesting season has laid her eggs this Mother’s Day weekend, and this new momma made another first.
Danger lurks in phone apps
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Faith.
Social media applications and websites have allowed more people to be connected than ever before across vast distances. Some of these apps and sites even make it possible for users to meet complete strangers in their area, but there is danger in these tools.
Out and About
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Opinion, Out and About.
This issue is our next to our last issue of our 16th year. Soon, sweet 16 will be in our rear-view mirror and 17 will be upon us. According to songs about being 17, it is a time to be innocent but experienced, courageous but afraid, naïve but jaded and beautiful yet lonely. According to pop culture – it is a time of transition and change. We will see about that. I think we will just skip the confused, lonely, afraid, jaded and naïve characteristics. We do have a surprise coming up for our 17th year and it does have to do with a song, but we will keep that under our proverbial hats for now.
Lorance’s sentence must be commuted
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Letters to the Editor, Opinion.
Before leaving office President Obama commuted: (1) The sentence of traitor Bailey Manning. He leaked sensitive national security information putting our troops at risk. (2) The sentence of Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Rivera, serving 50 years in prison for plotting to overthrow the U.S. Government, whose group killed 4 Americans in a New York City bombing in1975, and (3) pardoned and commuted the sentences of hundreds of criminal cocaine and heroin dealers. Many were outraged; I voiced mine!
If governor signs, 2.7 million criminal records vanish from public view
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Editorial, Opinion.
More than 2.7 million criminal records will be sealed and the arrest records of hundreds of thousands of people will be concealed under a bill heading to Gov. Rick Scott’s desk.
Is anything absolute?
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Letters to the Editor, Opinion.
s there such a thing as “absolute”? The dictionary states that “good” and “evil” are “absolutes” when using the word as a noun. Mathematics is absolute because it historically has only offered true answers to correct equations that answer many of society’s and science’s questions. Religion and mythology are not absolutes because it requires faith for their existence. Mythology is aligned to a period of time when humans worshipped Gods of the land, sea and air. The Bible is a mixed book of religion, history and moral teachings but both are associated with the history of the advancement of man.
Relay celebrates life
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Community.
Cancer has touched the lives of so many.
Navarre Park makeover planned
Written by Gail Acosta on . Posted in Community.
The Panhandle Butterfly House celebrated its 20th year Saturday with a ribbon cutting and grand reopening. The house was founded by Jack and Fonda Wetherell in 1997 and began as a cooperative effort of the Santa Rosa Clean Community System, Inc., the UF/IFAS Cooperative Extension Service and the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce. Today it operates as a nonprofit program of the Santa Rosa Clean Community System, Inc. and the UF/IFAS Cooperative Extension Service with support from the Florida Master Gardeners.
Genealogy Library opens for county
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The Santa Rosa Genealogy Library in Milton celebrated its grand opening Monday as visitors searched out answers to the age-old question “where do I come from?”