Angela Jordan chokes up talking about the six-page letter – handwritten in cursive – that country singer Woody Bradshaw wrote to her and her West Navarre Intermediate students.
Ira Mae Hewatt-Bruce’s life and contributions to Navarre and the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce were celebrated last week when family members, friends, Chamber and community members gathered June 30 to dedicate a room in her honor.
The City of Milton Department of Planning & Development is implementing a new interactive online zoning map that improves user functions and includes a host of new features.
Navarre High School, which ended the school year with just over 2,200 students, isn’t far from reaching its full capacity of 2,369.
With that in mind and more growth on the way, Santa Rosa County School District officials are in the process of negotiating for a parcel of land between Navarre and Gulf Breeze that would be ideal for a new high school.
With the return of rain after a dry patch during May and the first half of June, lawns are actively growing in Florida’s panhandle. This results in some positive and some negative aspects.
The major positive feature is a lush, green lawn. No matter the turf species, there is a unique pride to having a yard with carpet-like characteristics to complement all the other boast-worthy landscape features.
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Students from Holley Navarre Primary and their parents are participating in the Reading Road Trip at the Holley Navarre Primary media center. One of the guest speakers last month was the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge, complete with animal ambassadors.
There are people in this world – I am not one of them – who have that rare ability to make other people happy just by their nature.
That’s not to say that the rest of us don’t bring joy, comfort and smiles to others. But it’s not our primary gift. We have others to cultivate in order to leave our mark on the world.
We have made it through what’s typically billed the busiest weekend of the year and despite the weather not perfectly cooperating, it appears to have been a success.
My family and I spent time on the beach July 4, enjoying the live band and the fireworks, and we were not alone, nor did I expect to be.