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Graduation scheduled for area’s newest service dogs
The Florida Panhandle’s nonprofit group Healing Paws for Warriors (HP4Ws) graduates additional veteran/service dog teams after three months of intensive training.
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Gulf Breeze High School Honor Roll
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Education.
Gulf Breeze High School announced its honor roll for A and A/B students.
For God’s Sake: Promised answer is change in the one praying
Written by Michael Bannon on . Posted in For God's Sake, Opinion.
“What is prayer?” read the title of a chapter in a weekly study I am leading. It is an excellent and important question, one with which I have been wrestling for years.
If you perused a typical prayer list, you would find a list of people with problems, some sick, some unemployed, some in financial straits.
New hymnal coming to Risen Savior
Written by Michael Bannon on . Posted in Faith.
The congregation of Risen Savior Lutheran Church in Navarre is anticipating the arrival of a new hymnal, the fruit of more than eight years of review and research performed by its denomination, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS).
The hymnals the congregation currently uses were published in 1993, a revision of the WELS’ 1940 hymnal.
Brian Out Loud
Written by Brian Lester on . Posted in Brian Out Loud, Opinion.
Must-win game. It’s all I wrote about and talked about when it came to the Navarre football team in the days leading up to its District 1-7A finale against Crestview last Friday night.
It might have been said and written more times than Merry Christmas is in December.
Book program moves forward for struggling readers
Written by News Service of Florida on . Posted in Florida News.
A state-backed program designed to help struggling elementary-school readers by delivering free books to their homes is set to start shipping books next month, and eligible families are being encouraged to sign up.
Navarre boys soccer team enters new year with confidence
Written by Brian Lester on . Posted in Sports.
Last season didn’t end the way the Navarre boys soccer team would have liked. A blanket quarantine cost the Raiders the final two weeks of the regular season before Niceville eliminated them in the district tournament.
But with a new season on the horizon and a little more normalcy in place amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the team is ready to make this season a good one.
Reed sets school record in 100 Butterfly
Written by Brian Lester on . Posted in Sports.
Noah Reed looked focused as he prepared to swim the 100 Butterfly at Friday’s District 1-3A Meet in Pensacola. The Navarre standout stood at the diving block jumping up and down a little and slapping his chest to hype himself up before the race.
Once he hit the pool, Reed looked as if he was swimming as fast as he has all season.
Small business tax ‘holiday’ proposed
Written by News Service of Florida on . Posted in Florida News.
Discounts for shoppers would be offered through a sales-tax “holiday” at small businesses on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, under a pair of bills filed Monday for the 2022 legislative session, which will start in January.
Commissioners use excess fees to fund ‘boots on the ground’ infrastructure projects
Written by Ben Johnson on . Posted in News.
Many Santa Rosa residents and county officials have witnessed an increase in development over the past year as more people want to live in the county.
Due to the increase in development and associated cost when developers fill out paperwork, $1,746,009.73 will be refunded to the Board of County Commissioners by the clerk of court.