Happy 2017 – or as we like to say, Happy News Year! We look forward to keeping you informed in the new year as we have in the past. And if you are reading this great newspaper – thank you! Our subscribers , readers and advertisers are why we are in business.
In response to Brian Out Loud! Dec. 22, I’d like to voice appreciation to Brian Lester and the Navarre Press for the continued and focused coverage of our high school sports. Brian is diligent in his coverage of high school sporting events and always does a great job in the write up and photos. In reading the press on my son, Austin, in the last weeks of his senior cross-country season, it’s a realization of how fast these high schoolers’ four years go by! Being in The Navarre Press makes their achievements extra special. Thanks for covering all the Navarre athletes and high school activities.
Ad nauseam I listened to John Kerry’s anti-Israel resolution speech. He dared say something like Obama’s administration supported Israel more than any other. Not true! Obama’s shunning Netanyahu more than once was despicable. The vindictive anti-Israel resolution slapped God in the face, were that possible. God will bless those who bless Israel, curse those who don’t (Gen 12:3). Don’t forget the Palestinians won’t recognize Israel’s existence even though the latter have bent over backwards in accommodations.
Navarre’s stretch of Highway 87 will be getting a face-lift thanks to a $250,000 landscape improvement grant from the Florida Department of Transportation.
Santa Rosa veterans can receive Veterans Affairs services Monday, Jan. 9, without traveling to Pensacola through the department’s Mobile Vet Center (MVC).
Historically, new year’s day plunges take place in frigid waters and cold temperatures making it a challenge to complete. But when you live in Florida, it isn’t such a challenge, especially this winter. With temperatures in the 70s, weather conditions were favorable as hundreds of locals and visitors plunged into Navarre Beach’s waters new year’s day. It was part of the second annual Pelican Plunge at the fishing pier and the Penguin Plunge at Juana’s Pagodas.
Florida’s contracted tourism agency Visit Florida came under fire just months before the legislature would meet to decide whether to approve a $76 million budget for the organization. The criticism has resulted in the resignation of the company’s President and CEO Will Seccombe.
American kites have come a long way from diamond-shaped children’s toys. Kite flying has become a nationwide, thousand dollar hobby for many as kites continue to be built bigger, stronger and more beautifully.
Monica Nicole-Gonzalez Jones was sentenced by Circuit Judge Ross Goodman to a total of 33 years in state prison. Twenty-eight years of that sentence must be served as a minimum mandatory sentence. Jones will be required to serve 28 years day for day with no gain time. Judge Goodman also ordered Jones to pay a $550,000 fine.
