The statistics are shocking. Since 2006 there have been 110 accidents involving bicycles or pedestrians along the congested U.S. 98 corridor between Navarre and Gulf Breeze. Nineteen were fatal.

If you build it, they will come. That’s not exactly what Judd Smith had in mind when he put up volleyball nets at Lagerheads four months ago. But since then, local interest in beach volleyball has continued to grow.

Thirteen percent of 18 to 20 year olds who were involved in an automobile crash admitted they were sending or receiving text messages, according to the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. The institute also found text messaging increased the risk for crashes by 23 percent.

Do you remember in elementary science class when you looked at light through a prism you saw many different wavelengths, or colors, of light? Did you know that those different wavelengths of light affect you differently? One of the most potent wavelengths is the non-visible blue-violet wavelength that comes from that big, bright ball in the sky: the sun.