Navarre area students with special needs came out to play games, dance and just have fun at this year’s Raider Sports Ability Games at the Navarre High School fields Friday.
Forecasters called for a significant chance of heavy rain and storms May 10 in Navarre, but Ian Lockwood Memorial 5k race director Rebecca McCleery was hoping it would hold off until at least 9:30 a.m., after the race ended. She got her wish.
Born and raised in the coal-mining town of Arno, Virginia, Violet Mullins knows what it’s like to live the life of a coal miner’s daughter; “I was born in a company house and we lived in a company house … you had to sign your life away at the company store in the little town of Appalachia … the company lived off’n you,” Mullins said.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested 32-year-old Jessie Eugene Morris and 25-year-old Amber Leard-Morris of Fort Walton Beach May 9 after deputies responded to a complaint of a man beating a dog with a piece of lumber and then holding it down by its neck with the lumber against its throat.
Members of the Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) received an update on the future Pensacola Bay ferry service at their April 9 meeting in Milton. Dan Brown, Gulf Islands National Seashore (GINS) park superintendent, said the ferry service is projected to being in March 2017.
A five-person crew flew a newly-painted E-2C Hawkeye May 9 from Norfolk, Va., to NAS Pensacola. It was the plane’s final flight and shortly after it landed it was presented to the National Naval Aviation Museum. The Hawkeye was the only Navy Fleet aircraft not on display at the museum.
Cmdr. Robert G. Sinram relieved Cmdr. Matthew J. Bowen of duty as Commanding Officer of Helicopter Training Squadron EIGHT (HT-8) during a Change-of-Command ceremony May 9 at NAS Whiting Field.
For the seventh year, donations of food collected by letter carriers in Gulf Breeze are benefiting ACTS Ministry at Harbor at Holley Church. The national “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive is in its 22nd year.