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Raider football team turns attention to summer workouts

Written by Brian Lester on June 1, 2023. Posted in Sports.

Navarre head coach Jay Walls now has time to sit back and evaluate the way things went this spring for his Raider football team.

It all wrapped up two weeks ago with a spring game against rival Gulf Breeze, and while the final score of the varsity half didn’t favor the Raiders, Walls thought there was a lot of good from that game and the spring as a whole.

Rounsaville excited about future in college softball

Written by Brian Lester on May 30, 2023. Posted in Sports.

Rising senior Calyn Rounsaville is already committed to NCAA Division II Montevallo for softball.

How the Navarre standout was first noticed by the Falcons is kind of a funny story.

South End soccer complex design nears completion; county studying best way to pay for $9-million project

Written by Ken Garner on May 23, 2023. Posted in News.

The design is done; now Santa Rosa County has to decide how to pay for the almost $9-million soccer complex planned next to Pensacola State College’s Tiger Point campus.

Adaptive PE kickball game ‘Fun for everyone’

Written by Brian Lester on May 23, 2023. Posted in Education.

Hudson Kwart runs the bases. His fifth-grade buddies, Marissa Puentes and Olivia Diamond are running right alongside him, cheering him on.

Stats don’t matter here on a warm Friday afternoon on the playground at West Navarre Intermediate. Neither does the score. The focus instead is on inclusion.

Raider softball team poised to build on 2023 success

Written by Brian Lester on May 22, 2023. Posted in Sports.

Navarre’s softball team put together one of its best seasons in 2023 and all signs point to that success continuing next year.

While the Raiders are losing a strong senior class that helped the team reach its first regional tournament since 2019, a number of key players will return for the 2024 campaign.

Gulf Breeze teen a leader in fentanyl education

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on May 19, 2023. Posted in Community, Education, News.

May 9 marked the second annual National Fentanyl Awareness Day in the United States.

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine, is a major contributor to fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the U.S., according to the CDC. It is a large part of the conversation around the opioid epidemic.

Spring game an ‘exciting day for Lighthouse’

Written by Brian Lester on May 19, 2023. Posted in Sports.

For the first time in program history, Lighthouse Private Christian Academy’s football team played a spring game.

That’s a big deal for the Stingrays, who battled North Bay Haven Thursday afternoon and used the opportunity to evaluate talent in a live game situation.

The Bindu Institute to host Self-Care Fair May 20 at Pik-itz

Written by Staff Reporters on May 18, 2023. Posted in Advertorial, Healthy Living.

What do you define as self-care? Is it a day at the spa? Is it practicing your favorite hobby? Is it reading a book? Could it be all of these?

Believe it or not, self-care goes beyond physical and mental health.

Fitness court now open at Tiger Point Park

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on May 18, 2023. Posted in Community, News.

County officials and members of the Tiger Point community braved the humidity Wednesday, May 10, to officially open the Tiger Point Fitness Court.

The fitness court, which is located behind the baseball fields at Tiger Point Park, is associated with the National Fitness Campaign, a nationwide wellness consulting firm that partners with municipalities and schools to plan, build and fund healthy communities.