State Attorney Ginger Bowden Madden announced on March 29, 2022, that Circuit Court Judge Clifton Drake sentenced Daniel Lee Weidman of Gulf Breeze to serve a total of six years in county jail. Those six years will be followed by four years of probation for the thirty-five criminal counts of which a Santa Rosa County jury convicted him after a jury trial on February 3, 2022.
There’s a ticket stub attached to the inside of one of my binders that holds basketball cards from an era a long time ago.
We won’t get into just how long ago, except to say that every time I take a look at those cards, I swear I still smell the bubble gum that came with each pack of cards I bought.
A re-occurring theme in Navarre or Santa Rosa County for that matter is the number two. If one is good, then two is better.
We usually end up with two of something when within an organization there is a disgruntled faction and instead of working together to solve a problem, the disgruntled take their toys and create their own sandbox to play in.
The site work for Slim Chicken’s location next to the Navarre Post Office is moving quickly.
And, according to one of our avid readers, Mike Sandler, there are survey stakes where the proposed apartment complex is possibly going east of St. Augustine’s Church.
For many young athletes, their biggest goal is to compete at the highest level, but what happens if they don’t make it.
According to a fact sheet from the National Federation of State High School Association, only six percent of high school student-athletes go on to compete in college and only two percent of those that play in college make it professionally.
At the Santa Rosa County school board meeting on Feb. 10, several students were honored as their school’s choice to represent them at the district level of the Sunshine State Scholars program.