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Looking back at Census 2020: What Florida’s business and community leaders need to know

Written by Staff Reporters on July 26, 2022. Posted in Editorial, Opinion.

Following the 2020 Census, Florida could have secured:

Extra yearly federal funding;
An additional congressional seat; and
Reliable data to guide statewide business and economic development, workforce infrastructure, social services, and decision-making for the years to come.

Out and About

Written by Sandi Kemp on July 26, 2022. Posted in Opinion, Out and About.

This election season seems very low key compared to years past.

We had a difficult time even getting some of the candidates to answer basic questions.

Navarre Raider band camp strikes the chord

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on July 26, 2022. Posted in Community.

Olivia Booth has been a member of the Navarre High School Raider Marching Band since entering the school as a freshman.

This upcoming year will be special, not only because she is a senior, but also because she was named band captain at the end of last school year.

Commissioners frustrated by booming bear population

Written by Ken Garner on July 26, 2022. Posted in News.

The problem is becoming…unbearable.

“I’m quite tired of hearing FWC tell you as a citizen or me as a citizen that you’ve got to rattle pans, or put up fences, or put your garbage out after a certain time or pay for an expensive bear can” to keep Florida black bears from snooping around people’s homes, Santa Rosa County Commission Chairman Bob Cole said Monday.

Brian Out Loud

Written by Brian Lester on July 26, 2022. Posted in Brian Out Loud, Opinion.

Fans lined the railing along the walkway leading from the tunnel to the field on a rainy Tuesday night in early July at Blue Wahoos Stadium.

They had hats, bats, gloves, shirts and cards. Someone even had a plastic shovel.

For God’s Sake: Preach the truth

Written by Michael Bannon on July 26, 2022. Posted in For God's Sake, Opinion.

Some three decades ago, when I entered full-time Christian ministry, it occurred to me that I was entering a field that, at its foundation, is unchanging.

It was comforting to know that the God I serve, the God of the Bible, is unchanging. Who He is, He has always been and always will be.

Sending out God’s message over the airwaves

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on July 26, 2022. Posted in Faith.

Every church tries to get the message and Word of God out to congregants and the public, but Coastline Calvary Chapel of Gulf Breeze is doing that in a less conventional way.

In 2017, the church started a radio station.

Flounder’s violated child labor, other laws, says US Dept. of Labor

Written by Staff Reporters on July 25, 2022. Posted in News.

A federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor at Flounder’s Chowder House found several pay practice and child labor violations, including the failure to pay sushi chefs overtime wages due and the employment of 15-year-old workers for more hours per week than the law allows.

The department’s Wage and Hour Division determined Fred Flounder Inc., operating as Flounder’s Chowder House, violated the Fair Labor Standards Act’s child labor, overtime and recordkeeping provisions by permitting seven, 15-year-olds to work beyond legally allowed hours, including working more than eight hours on a non-school day.

County prepares to move into new courthouse

Written by Ken Garner on July 22, 2022. Posted in News.

Santa Rosa County will move the Florida First Judicial Circuit Court into a $42-million new facility this summer, but it hasn’t decided what the future holds for the 95-year-old downtown Milton courthouse.

“My preference would be to sell it to the public and hope they can do something useful with it,” Santa Rosa County Commission Chairman Bob Cole said last week.

Everette Alford named new head football coach at Lighthouse

Written by Brian Lester on July 22, 2022. Posted in Sports.

Football life comes at you fast. Just ask Everette Alford.

Hired to be the defensive coordinator at Lighthouse Private Christian Academy earlier this year, he learned Thursday that he is now the head coach of the program.