Despite challenges, Dawn’s Cookies and Café looks to open with new location
Running a business can be challenging.
For Dawn Funk and her family, the challenges they have faced over the past year have presented frustration, but also opportunity.
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Clark ready to soar with Hawks
Written by Brian Lester on . Posted in Uncategorized.
When Navarre linebacker Dwayne Clark Jr. is on the football field, nothing else matters.
It’s just him and the opportunity to make a big play on the defensive side of the ball while playing the game he is passionate about.
Pensacola Bay Bridge westbound structure opens to traffic Tuesday, Feb. 14
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The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will open the westbound (Gulf Breeze to Pensacola) span of the Pensacola Bay Bridge on U.S. 98 to vehicular traffic by 6 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14.
The two spans of the bridge are now temporarily accommodating two east and two westbound travel lanes, but upon final completion of the project each structure will support three lanes of traffic in each direction, along with inside and outside shoulders, and 10-foot wide multiuse paths for pedestrians and bicyclists.
Cole to play football at Birmingham-Southern
Written by Brian Lester on . Posted in Sports.
Isaac Cole had a knack for getting pressure on the quarterback this season. And even if he didn’t come away with a sack, the standout defensive lineman for the Navarre Raiders often forced the signal caller to make a decision he probably didn’t want to make.
Now Cole is set to take his talents to the college level where he’ll play ball for NCAA Division III Birmingham-Southern.
Raiders set to field ‘best squad to date’ in boys lacrosse
Written by Brian Lester on . Posted in Sports.
Navarre’s boys lacrosse team is coming off its best season in the short history of the program. The Raiders won six games, doubling their win total from the year prior, and now head into the fourth year of lacrosse at the school hoping to take things a step further.
103 years: Helen Seagrave recalls lifetime of memories
Written by Hansen Hasenberg on . Posted in Community.
The milestone for most people is to make it to 100 years, or a century, old. For Helen Seagrave, she has been there and done that. Sunday, Jan. 29, she turned 103.
Seagrave, who has resided at Navarre Gardens on Highway 87 for just over a year, was born in 1920 in Connecticut, near New London.
Navarre’s girls lacrosse team fired up and ready to go
Written by Brian Lester on . Posted in Sports.
Navarre took a big step forward in girls lacrosse a season ago, making a surprise run to the district tourney final for the first time in program history.
The Raiders won only two games in 2022 but played well when it mattered to get a shot at the title. Their season ended with a 13-4 loss to area power Niceville.
New vacation cottages expected to open this spring
Written by Hansen Hasenberg on . Posted in News.
If you have driven on Granada or Carlos streets in Navarre at any point in the past month, you may have noticed work being done on the lot across from the Childcare Network. There are approximately nine new cottages going in as part of a rental project called Sum Beach Rentals.
Before these cottages, which are not finished, the lot was home to a trailer park that had become dilapidated. The project to create Sum Beach Rentals began when Jeff Perrett, an entrepreneur and developer, bought the property July 15, 2022.
Summer work paying for Peoples on tennis court
Written by Brian Lester on . Posted in Sports.
JT Peoples heard about the tennis team when he got to high school and decided to give the sport a shot.
“Freshman year was my first year playing tennis,” Peoples said. “There was a lot of learning going on that year.”
Heartfelt Thanks: Cardiac arrest survivor credits AED, quick thinking friends for survival
Written by Ken Garner on . Posted in News.
Richard McCool, 67, smiled broadly before making his final remark to the EMTs, dispatchers, drivers and friends gathered in his honor Friday at LifeGuard Ambulance in Milton.
“Really – from the bottom of my heart, thank you,” he said, causing laughter and applause.