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Brian Out Loud

Written by Brian Lester on February 22, 2022. Posted in Brian Out Loud, Opinion.

Five years ago, the Sweet 16 was the furthest thing from the collective mind of Navarre’s girls basketball team.

The Raiders were just praying to avoid 16 losses in Abby Fogg’s first season as the head coach.
For the record, they didn’t. They lost 19 games.

SRC Animal Services intakes large number of dogs, needs your help

Written by Staff Reporters on February 21, 2022. Posted in News.

Santa Rosa County Animal Services (SRCAS) continues to have an urgent need for the community to adopt or foster dogs as the shelter remains at critical capacity. The shelter is in the process of performing intake on more than 70 additional dogs from a special case involving a community member in Santa Rosa County who became overwhelmed.

Photographer shares birds-eye view of bridge inspection

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on February 15, 2022. Posted in News.

Drone pilot Arthur Ladd was out and about Tuesday taking photos of the Navarre Beach bridge inspections that began that day.

Vacant mobile home heavily damaged in fire

Written by Staff Reporters on February 15, 2022. Posted in News.

A Valentine’s Day fire completely destroyed a mobile home, according to a Holley-Navarre Fire District press release.

The call came in just after 5 a.m. of a structure fire on the southside of U.S. Highway 98 near Walmart. The call was actually in the 2000 block of Blankenship Road.

Teacher’s ‘second family’ comes together to help during emergency

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on February 14, 2022. Posted in Community.

Jamie Oestmann, a paraprofessional at Holley Navarre Middle School, is grateful for her “second family” after a health emergency.

She went in for hysterectomy surgery Dec. 21. She came home and began to feel a significant amount of pain. The pain went on for some time before she realized she needed help.

Milton man pulls Fort Walton mayor out of burning car

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on February 10, 2022. Posted in News.

A Milton tow truck driver is being hailed as “Our Hero – Our Angel” by the mayor of Fort Walton Beach’s family after saving him and his wife from a burning vehicle.

Mayor Dick Rynearson and his wife, Janey, were heading to a gas station off Interstate 10 near Live Oak Jan. 26 when their car was t-boned and burst into flames.

God speaks in mysterious ways: Pastor Ronnie Beaden serves Crestview church through puppet ministry

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on February 7, 2022. Posted in Faith.

Pastor Ronnie Bearden’s puppet ministry started with a soft, pastel-colored stuffed glow worm that he snatched off a crib in the church nursey on his way into preschool chapel.

It was the first day of school, the children were crying and whining, and he realized that what he had prepared wasn’t going to fly. So, he improvised, unzipping the toy’s back, ripping out the battery pack and naming him Eddie.

Researcher: Local bottlenose dolphins have complex social patterns

Written by Wendy Victora Rudman on February 7, 2022. Posted in Beach.

For nearly three years, Christina Toms studied the behavior of bottlenose dolphins in local waters. She and other team members crossed back and forth across waterways including the Santa Rosa Sound, East Bay, Escambia Bay and Blackwater Bay.

Michael Carter makes time to read to students

Written by Brian Lester on February 2, 2022. Posted in Community.

Michael Carter made the day of a classroom of third graders two weeks ago. dropping by Holley Navarre Intermediate to read a book to students.

Now in the NFL as a running back with the New York Jets, Carter went to HNIS in fifth grade and he called his visit to the school ‘a trip down memory lane’ and loved hanging out with the students.