Guard director backed as Texas deployment nears
Tallahassee – As the state prepares to send members of the Florida State Guard to Texas, the Senate began moving forward Monday with confirming the State Guard’s director.
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Lawmakers look at pot potency limits
Written by News Service of Florida on . Posted in Florida News.
Tallahassee – As a proposed constitutional amendment seeking to authorize recreational marijuana looms, Florida lawmakers are taking steps toward imposing limits on the amount of euphoria-inducing THC in pot products.
School buses crash on Highway 98 near Sunrise Drive
Written by Hansen Hasenberg on . Posted in Education, News.
A bus bound for West Navarre Primary School Monday morning, Feb. 5, didn’t make it to its destination. Instead, the bus, filled with 24 kindergarteners, first graders and second graders were involved in a collision with another school bus, which had no children in it at the time.
The crash left the buses and the children stuck on the side of Highway 98 for over half an hour. The incident occurred around 8 a.m. near the intersection of Highway 98 and Sunrise Drive in Navarre.
Brian Out Loud
Written by Brian Lester on . Posted in Brian Out Loud, Opinion.
In the middle of its celebration last Tuesday night, members of the Navarre Raider girls soccer team paused their enjoyment of the moment to console a heartbroken Pace Patriot team.
The Raiders didn’t have to do it. They could have carried on with their celebration, savoring the 2-0 victory they earned in a hard-fought game on a cool January evening at the Ashton Brosnaham Complex in Pensacola.
New northwest Florida book festival to be held March 23
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Community.
Books By the Bay, a new outdoor book festival sponsored by nonprofit Emerald Coast Writers, will feature more than 50 bestselling, international, national, and regional authors including the popular author-illustrator John Patrick Green of the InvestiGATORS series.
And the Krewe of Jesters Mardi Gras parade winners are
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Community.
The 38th Annual Navarre Krewe of Jesters Mardi Gras parade winners have been announced!
‘To serve and not to be served’
Written by Hansen Hasenberg on . Posted in Education.
With limited budgets and resources available to schools, volunteers play a crucial role in allowing teachers and other faculty to focus on providing students with a quality education. Each year, Santa Rosa District Schools names their volunteers of the year for the whole district.
Flushed! Rudman pulls proposed bill to create utilities authority
Written by Ken Garner on . Posted in News.
A proposal to create a utilities authority to manage water and sewer services in Santa Rosa County north of the Yellow River is dead, for now.
Navarre’s regular season in boys basketball ends with loss to Gulf Breeze
Written by Brian Lester on . Posted in Sports.
Darius Cunningham Jr. knocked down a 3-pointer with a little over a minute to play in Friday night’s showdown with Gulf Breeze.
The shot pulled Navarre within 10 of the rival Dolphins, and even as time became less and less on their side, the Raiders never stopped doing all they could to pull off a late-game comeback.
Gulf Breeze Zoo’s ‘Kenya’ predicts an early spring and a Chiefs Super Bowl win on Giraffe Day
Written by Kaitie Kiger on . Posted in Community.
An excited crowd gathered Friday morning around Kenya, a 16-year-old reticulated giraffe resident at Gulf Breeze Zoo, to watch her predict the future.
Feb. 2, or Groundhog Day as it’s called everywhere else, will now be referred to as Giraffe Day in Santa Rosa County, according to county commissioner Colton Wright who read an official declaration at the celebration Friday morning.