Telescopes coming to elementary classrooms
Starting this week, students at Santa Rosa district elementary schools will be able to gaze at constellations and planets through the lens of a telescope.
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Driving Navarre Beach Causeway? Watch out for these striking black and orange birds
Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on . Posted in News.
Drive along Navarre Beach Causeway and you’ll notice dozens of new visitors along the side of the road.
Black skimmers, distinctive for their bright orange beaks, are courting and nesting on the sand right next to the busy road.
Education proposal targets efforts to ‘indoctrinate’
Written by News Service of Florida on . Posted in Florida News.
A proposed rule that will be weighed by the State Board of Education aims to control the way history is taught in Florida classrooms and not allow teachers to “indoctrinate” students, as part of what state Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran called a “constant, vigilant fight.”
The proposed rule seeks to put strict guidelines on teaching U.S. history.
Atlantic system forms 12 days before hurricane season
Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on . Posted in News.
The first fledgling tropical system has formed in the Atlantic, 12 days ahead of the official onset of hurricane season. The storm is not forecast to pose a threat to Florida. At this point, it’s a non-tropical Bermuda low, which may briefly acquire some tropical characteristics this weekend before moving north, according to local officials.
May 20-26, 2021 Blast from the Past
Written by Linda Murchison on . Posted in History.
One Year Ago – 2020
With legal action pending, the Santa Rosa County School District opted to hold impact fees in a separate account and not move forward with expenditure.
Woman escorted out of meeting questions constitutionality of action
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Letters to the Editor, Opinion.
How a school board meeting is run tells you a tremendous amount about the character of the elected members.
Are they open to input?
One misstep turns into a searing political dogfight
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Letters to the Editor, Opinion.
The Santa Rosa Board of County Commissioners, though goaded by a dozen angry and often belligerent citizens, declined to fire County Administrator Dan Schebler at its May 11 meeting.
Court rules against ‘phantom’ medical expenses
Written by News Service of Florida on . Posted in Florida News.
An appeals court Wednesday took aim at what are dubbed “phantom” medical payments in personal-injury cases but asked the Florida Supreme Court to resolve the issue.
On Fairy Wings: ‘Fairy Lady of Navarre’ steps back, leaves hole at flea market
Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on . Posted in Community.
Since the first day the Gulf Breeze Flea Market opened more than 30 years ago, Caroline McCaul has been there.
When she started, her four children were still in school.
Out and About
Written by Sandi Kemp on . Posted in Opinion, Out and About.
I had the “opportunity” to watch most of the Santa Rosa Board of County Commission meeting last week and it was, well, interesting.
What wasn’t interesting was that it lasted from 4:30 p.m. until midnight.