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Everyone’s a winner at second Raiders’ Games

Written by Ken Garner on May 9, 2013. Posted in Sports.

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.

Here’s looking at you… Frank and Brenda Thompson

Written by Staff Reporters on May 9, 2013. Posted in Community.

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.

Appel, Benton leap into state competition

Written by Staff Reporters on May 2, 2013. Posted in Sports.

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.

Bullet narrowly misses sleeping boy

Written by Ken Garner on May 2, 2013. Posted in News.

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.

Meth lab explodes, wrecks lives

Written by Staff Reporters on May 1, 2013. Posted in Crime, News.

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.

Teamsters host school bus drivers’ forum

Written by Staff Reporters on April 25, 2013. Posted in News.

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.

Survivors lead Relay for Life efforts

Written by Staff Reporters on April 18, 2013. Posted in News.

Three times a survivor.

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.

Abatement complaints result in four notices

Written by Staff Reporters on April 18, 2013. Posted in News.

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.

Derelict properties receive county’s attention

Written by Staff Reporters on April 11, 2013. Posted in News.

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.

Weightlifters wait to learn state fate

Written by Staff Reporters on April 11, 2013. Posted in Sports.

As many as four Navarre High School weightlifters could qualify to compete for a state championship April 19 in Kissimmee.