Track teams ready for the season
Only so much can be accomplished in practice. The payoff is in a big meet where the crowd is cheering, the adrenaline is flowing and the intensity is cranked up to the highest possible level.
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Tennis teams aim to make strides as season moves forward
Written by Brian Lester on . Posted in Sports.
Navarre’s girls tennis team placed third in the district tournament a year ago. With its top three players back this season, the Raiders have a shot to contend for at least the runner-up spot.
Tucker driven to be at her best as a runner
Written by Brian Lester on . Posted in Sports.
It was back in September that Sophia Tucker stepped onto a cross-country course at the college level for the first time in her life.
Back country camping on hold for now
Written by Brian Lester on . Posted in News.
Bags full of trash piled up high. Tents abandoned in the sand. Beer cans and soda cups litter the beach. All of it paints a not so perfect picture of the irresponsibility of those who take part in back country camping at Perdido Key.
Local refuge offers life line to human trafficking victims
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Faith, News.
Florida has the third highest number of sex trafficking cases in the country. These victims, frequently young girls roughly 12-years-old, are forced into prostitution where they may see as many as 30 “johns” or purchasers of sex, a night.
The great divide
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Letters to the Editor, Opinion.
Monday’s county commission meeting was interesting to say the least. Two chambers on the agenda presented applications to host the same event in different years. It is the same event that the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce (NBACOC) has hosted for 10 years with a new venue. They built the event, grew it and made it a great success. And now the Greater Navarre Area Chamber of Commerce (GNACOC) wants to ride on their coattails by snatching the event out from under the NBACOC in 2018. But let’s be honest, the divide goes much deeper than one event.
Teacher salary negotiations at impasse again
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Community.
Negotiations for teacher and staff contracts in Santa Rosa County that began in August have reached an impasse as the Santa Rosa Professional Educators and district representatives remain roughly $1.2 million apart on the level of pay raises.
Pier operator’s other businesses gone
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Beach.
From a tennis clientele in Pensacola to off-road vehicle enthusiasts riding a remote trail near Milton, Coastal Concessions seems to have a diverse customer base and be an extensive enterprise as depicted on its website.
Longtime sweethearts boogie on the beach
Written by Staff Reporters on . Posted in Beach.
Candles, rose petals and live music were everywhere at Juana’s Club Pagoda Monday night, Feb. 13, as the Navarre Snowbirds Club hosted the annual Sweethearts Dinner and Dance on Navarre Beach.
Taking chances pays off for Leggett
Written by Brian Lester on . Posted in Sports.
Life is about taking chances and Jordan Leggett took a big one when he chose to come back to Clemson for his senior season.