Raider Games is an exceptional event for exceptional students. Held Friday at Bennett C. Russell Stadium, home of Navarre High School’s football, soccer, and track and field teams, Raider Games isn’t about winning and losing. The games are about what games should be about – playing.
When Frank Thompson left Montgomery, Ala., to live in West Palm Beach, he was too young to remember a Montgomery snowfall, but after graduating from John I. Leonard High School, he joined the Army and got more snow than he wanted.
Navarre High School distance jumpers Nick Benton and Elijah Appel are the only Raiders competing at the Class 3A state track and field meet Friday, May 3, at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.
Unknown shooters fired bullets into at least two south Santa Rosa County homes in recent weeks, and narrowly missing boys at a sleepover in the most recent incident.
In another case of drugs ruining lives, one man was killed and another is in jail on felony charges following an explosion last Thursday in Gulf Breeze. And now a mother has a cautionary tale to tell of a “sweet” boy who made a bad choice and paid the price.
One of the world’s largest labor unions is helping Santa Rosa County school bus drivers make their case against Durham School Services’ local operation.
By the time Navarre resident Brenda Whidden was 20 years old, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer; by 30 she had ovarian cancer; and by 40 she had a bilateral mastectomy after four diagnoses of breast cancer.
Skip Tompkins, Santa Rosa County compliance superintendent, has completed his investigation of Navarre First Addition properties identified by Navarre resident Laurie Gallup as potentially in violation of county codes. Four property owners have received or will receive abatement notices as a result.
A community cleanup effort on Jan. 26 by a handful of Navarre residents resulted in seven pages of code enforcement issues to the county compliance superintendent.