This summer, a former Holley-Navarre Middle School band director died.
Alicia Trevino, 59, passed peacefully at her home in Cantonment July 11. Born Jan. 15, 1966, in Kansas City, Missouri, Trevino grew up the daughter of a pastor and a middle child with five siblings.
This September, students from Navarre Beach Marine Science Station (NBMSS), accompanied by local divers and community partners, gathered to remove harmful marine debris from beneath Navarre Beach Fishing Pier.
According to NBMSS director Charlene Mauro, it’s the only student led underwater cleanup of its kind in the U.S.
It’s hard to say one loss is tougher to digest than another when a team hasn’t won a game. But for the Navarre Raiders Friday night, the 29-26 gut punch at the hands of Tate is a frontrunner for the most painful.
Navarre High School is all about equipping their students with the tools needed for a successful career and life. As one teacher at Navarre High found out last week, those tools can also help build classroom furniture.
Marquez White ran fast and hard, determined to get to the end zone and provide an early jolt of energy for the Navarre Raider football team Friday night against Milton.
He scored with 9:48 to play in the opening quarter after racing past the defense, delivering the first punch against the unbeaten Panthers on the road.
Four of the previous five matches for the Navarre Raider volleyball team had ended with a loss, and for a while last Tuesday night, the Raiders were staring at the possibility of another one.
The Raiders trailed the Choctaw Indians two games to one, on the road by the way, but refused to fall on the wrong side of the scoreboard.
Each year, Santa Rosa and Escambia Counties’ middle school students venture to NAS Pensacola for a lesson in science, technology, engineering and math.
Holley-Navarre Middle School is one of the participating schools.
You could feel the energy on the field and sideline. Even in the stands as the fans cheered. It felt like Navarre football again after the Raiders blocked a punt on Mosley’s opening drive at Bennett C. Russell Stadium Friday night.
But that early shot of momentum never carried through the game.
With a blue sky above on a sun-splashed day, much like that tragic September morning nearly a quarter of a century ago, Navarre High NJROTC held its annual remembrance ceremony to remember those who lost their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.