With a new year comes a renewed focus on what is important in person’s life. The same goes for churches. Navarre Press asked faith leaders from churches across the Navarre area to share their messages for the community coming into 2025.
An employee of Santa Rosa County District Schools has resigned from their position after an investigation found that the employee had engaged in “financial improprieties.”
In a statement to Navarre Press, the school district said the resignation came after the employee, later identified as Kelly Short (Allen), was informed of action that would be taken against her employment both immediately and through recommendation of the school board at their next regularly scheduled meeting on Nov. 19, 2024.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following questionnaire published in the Oct. 24 edition of Navarre Press. Democrat Haley Morrissette is challenging Non-Affiliated Kim Kline and Republican Alex Andrade for State House District 2.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following questionnaire published in the Oct. 24 edition of Navarre Press. Non-Affiliated Kim Kline is challenging Democrat Haley Morrissette and Republican Alex Andrade for State House District 2.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following questionnaire published in the Oct. 24 edition of Navarre Press. Republican Alex Andrade is challenging Democrat Haley Morrissette and Non-Affiliated Kim Kline for State House District 2.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following questionnaire published in the Oct. 24 edition of Navarre Press. Democrat Lisa Newell is challenging Republican Don Gaetz for State Senate District 1.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following questionnaire published in the Oct. 24 edition of Navarre Press. Republican Don Gaetz is challenging Democrat Lisa Newell for State Senate District 1.
Every week Sandpaper Publishing, which includes Navarre Press, Santa Rosa Press Gazette, and the Crestview News Bulletin and Sandpaper Marketing have a meeting. There are sometimes up to 17 of us meeting from all over Northwest Florida. Part of that meeting includes shout outs to team members that went over and above. It is awesome to hear the team give each other well-deserved kudos. I’ve noticed quite a few selfless and thoughtful displays of awesomeness while out and about in our awesome community and I’m going to highlight a few of them this week. I’d like to do this more often and we are going to start “Shout Outs” that will be featured each week in the paper…and I decided that while typing this column. I know our awesome team will be able to pull this off by the time you read this column and by the time my column is written today (Monday,) there will be a QR Code at the end of the column that will direct you to a page on our website – just for “Shout-Outs.” This is specifically for good awesome displays of great customer service and just being a great citizen of our community.
Rewind for a moment to late January of 2015. Navarre’s soccer team is in a regional final on its home turf.
It’s my first week or two on the job here at the Navarre Press and my first time seeing Emily (Madril) Sams in person on the field. Sams and the Raiders were playing for the right to go to the state final four.
I’ve had the privilege of meeting a lot of people in the 24 years of working at Navarre Press, and I wouldn’t make a list in order of importance because it isn’t something you can quantify. However, I’d have to say that Pat Quinn would be very, very close to the top. He was an awesome man in so many ways. He was fun to be with because he was funny, honest, observant, wise, and so many other adjectives. To say that he had led an interesting life would be an understatement. Let’s just say he couldn’t have gotten another ounce out of life because – he lived it – to the fullest. And, in doing so, he contributed greatly to every community and person that he was close to. The Gulf Breeze Zoo celebrated its 40th anniversary last month, and I asked our team to pull the pages and pages of stories we have written about the zoo over the years and a sampling of the results can be found on pages C6 and 7. One of the stories was about “Remembering Colossus” which was written by our reporter John Richardson, who passed away last year and who is another person that I had the privilege of calling my friend. This is an awesome story and will give you a taste of what Pat Quinn was like and how fortunate we are to have the Zoo in our community.
