Bear meets ‘Bambi:’ Tiny dog worse for wear
A dog saved from a shelter a year ago was attacked by a bear in the yard of her new home in Gulf Breeze.
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For God’s Sake: Thankful for God’s all-sufficient grace
Written by Michael Bannon on . Posted in For God's Sake, Opinion, Uncategorized.
My first achievement for the new year was to get COVID. It first made its presence known with a scratchy throat on Tuesday of that first week.
The next morning, it unpacked its bags for a lengthy stay gifting me with what felt like a deluxe cold, the premium version with all the accessories: cough, congestion, headache, fever. I assumed it was only a bad cold.
Special needs PE teacher honored, gives credit to his team
Written by Kaitie Kiger on . Posted in Education.
Adaptive Physical Education (PE) teacher Zachary (Zach) Butler is Santa Rosa School District’s Teacher of the Year. Butler teaches PE to Exceptional Student Education (ESE) students in the south-end schools, is loved by many and has a heart for special needs students.
As soon as he was announced by Superintendent Karen Barber in the Oriole Beach Elementary School library Friday morning, he gave credit to his team that helps him every day.
Out and About
Written by Sandi Kemp on . Posted in Opinion, Out and About.
Congratulations to all the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce award winner nominees for 2021.
The winner will be announced at the breakfast that will be held on Friday, January 28, 2022, at 7:30 am at St Sylvester Catholic Church, 6464 Gulf Breeze Parkway.
For God’s Sake: The One we are following knows the way
Written by Michael Bannon on . Posted in For God's Sake, Opinion.
My wife and I recently spent a morning running errands. We emerged from our neighborhood into a thick blanket of marine fog. Visibility on Navarre Parkway was less than a quarter of a mile.
The bridge to Navarre Beach arched into a misty uncertainty. Buildings and trees emerged from the mist as faint shadows and only gradually took on definition.
For God’s Sake: Spirit of God makes a sermon effective
Written by Michael Bannon on . Posted in For God's Sake, Opinion.
“It’s over already? That was short!” said 4-year-old Killian after a recent Sunday service at COMPASS Church.
Out of the mouth of babes! Most often, the variable in the service’s length is the length of my sermon, and such was the case that Sunday.
New Holley by the Sea Park plans head to Zoning Board
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in News.
Residents of Hawthorn Drive in Holley by The Sea (HBTS) may have noticed a small yellow sign on a piece of vacant property across from Palmetto Lane at its junction with Hawthorne Drive.
Florida representative submits bill to add another step to incorporation
Written by Ben Johnson on . Posted in News.
Rep. Jayer Williamson filed a bill to the Florida House of Representatives Dec. 27 that would require a referendum for any prospective municipality incorporation, making Williamson’s “personal requirement” a Florida law.
HB 1035 would include a paragraph in F.S. 165.041 requiring the “passage of a nonbinding referendum … supporting the incorporation of a new municipality approved by 60% or more of the qualified electors within the area of the proposed municipality.”
Meet Santa Rosa County attorney, Tom Dannheisser
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in News.
After a year of internal transitions, Santa Rosa County has a new – and old – attorney in place. Tom Dannheisser, county attorney for more than 20 years, has stepped back into that role after serving as a county and circuit judge.
Out and About
Written by Sandi Kemp on . Posted in Opinion, Out and About.
Surprise! We have two more newspapers and communities to work with every week. It has been a whirlwind and still is.
Someone sent me an email and said, ‘Yay! When can we celebrate?’ I replied with a long list of what I had on my plate and said that me accomplishing that list was all the celebrating I could do right now.