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Homeschoolers’ Ocean Awareness Day colossal success

Written by Staff Reporters on March 17, 2016. Posted in Beach.

On Friday, March 11 about 150 homeschooled children and their families attended the Homeschoolers’ Ocean Awareness Day hosted by the Navarre Beach Marine Science Station. The event included educational and interactive displays concerning many topics related to both marine conservation and biology. Field studies of marine life, anatomy and physiology of marine creatures, sea turtle nesting and conservation, along with many other subjects were all taught by currently enrolled or graduated Pensacola State College student volunteers.

Beach renourishment delayed until mid-April

Written by Staff Reporters on March 17, 2016. Posted in Beach.

The $17 million dredge-and-fill project to restore sand that has been eroded from Navarre Beach can’t start on the planned date of April 1 because the contractor is delayed on another job near Sarasota.

County not tracking officials’ social media use

Written by Staff Reporters on March 17, 2016. Posted in News.

Santa Rosa County’s guidelines and record-keeping practices for its officials’ use of social media fall short of the standards recommended by the Florida Bar that have been adopted by some other counties, including Escambia.

Santa Rosa tourism director’s job hunt

Written by Staff Reporters on March 17, 2016. Posted in News.

Santa Rosa County Tourism Director Julie Morgan applied for the same position last December in Walton County, where the job pays roughly twice her current $68,000 a year.

Current Alzheimer’s disease research and therapy

Written by Staff Reporters on March 10, 2016. Posted in News.

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, AD alone composes “an estimated 60 to 80 percent of [dementia] cases.” Furthermore, according to research done by scientists from the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, located in Chicago, Ill., nearly five million Americans were living with this destructive disease in 2013. In the same paper by Rush Institute researchers, it was projected that by the year 2050 the number of individuals with Alzheimer’s would reach 14 million in the United States.

USDA approves chicken from China

Written by Carmen Reynolds on March 10, 2016. Posted in News.

After a back-and-forth years long trade and tariff war between the United States and China regarding beef , pork and chicken, the USDA in 2013 approved frozen chickens being shipped from the U.S., Chile and Canada to China for processing and returned to the U.S. in soups and nuggets.

Vets get voice mail at VA Crisis Line

Written by Staff Reporters on March 10, 2016. Posted in Letters to the Editor, Opinion.

The number 22.

It doesn’t signify one’s age, a date on a calendar, the number of days until one graduates, gets a new job, retires or the distance to one’s mailbox.