Dozens of Navarre High School students took the stage Friday at the school’s annual talent show, which featured singing, instrumental performances, dancing and stand-up comedy. Row after row of seats in the high school cafeteria were filled with parents, relatives and friends of those performing.
The Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce has announced the lineup for the 2014 Thursdays in the Park Summer Concert Series, co-sponsored by Navarre Press. The free concerts are held in Navarre Park from 6 to 8 p.m. A limited number of concert sponsorships remain available. Call the chamber for more details.
Sophomore Matt Cronin had two impressive relief appearances in Navarre’s pre-season games, but the results were not as good in his starting debut to open the 2014 regular season. Four walks, three stolen bases and two batters reaching base safely after dropped third strikes led to four unearned first inning runs for the Choctaw Indians. The Raiders never recovered. Jeff Rutledge relieved Cronin, but Choctaw added a run in the second on two singles, an error, and a stolen base.
This year’s Navarre Raiders basketball team had two seniors, Gatlin Casey and Blake Malter and the team sent them off in style in their last home game Saturday with a 69 – 59 win over Walton.
As January coms to an end, it’s inevitable that some of those New Year’s resolutions to lose weight will too. But at the Navarre YMCA, branch director Dottie Thomas said that residents are joining the gym to get healthy, not just to lose weight.
More than 100 Navarre area Cub Scouts started with blocks of wood and finished with custom-made hot rods just in time for this year’s Pinewood Derby, Jan. 18 and Jan. 25 at St. Sylvester’s Catholic Church, West Navarre Intermediate School and West Navarre Primary School.
I could not have been more excited when I pulled up in front of the Navarre Press office Monday morning. I had accomplished two things. First, I was returning to Navarre and second, I was returning to my first love, journalism.