It used to be that when one of our employees said, “I’m moving when my house sells” we had about 12-18 months to not worry about it. However, the market is officially picking up because we recently had an instance when a house went on the market on Monday and sold for more than the asking price on Wednesday and it was a pricey home with a swimming pool. Thankfully, the closing process is still pretty slow so we had four weeks to find a replacement.
By the time you read this it will officially be spring and our legislators will have been in session for a little more than two weeks. Appropriate enough – Leo Tolstoy wrote in Anna Karenina that, “Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
Santa Rosa County Commissioners did not act on the Tourist Development Council’s recommendation to hire Denise Haywald, Navarre resident, for the community relations/social media coordinator during the March 14 commission meeting.
A University of Central Florida student who pulled a dormitory fire alarm in the middle of the night had a more sinister plan than sending students scurrying out into the Orlando night, authorities said.
Relationships should be violence free, but during those times when it is not, the Shelter House Domestic Violence Center provides a shelter in the storm for those caught in a violent relationship.
Daylight savings starts Sunday morning and that means Spring is here. Navarre Beach will start to get college spring-breakers. The University of Florida is out for Spring Break this week. Next week, Florida State, Troy, Auburn, University of West Florida, Duke, University of North Carolina, University of Georgia and Emory are out for spring break.
Two Holley-Navarre Intermediate School fifth-grade teams will compete at the statewide Odyssey of the Mind competition April 6 at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.