Crime rings stealing firearms and selling them on the black market for drugs sounds like something out of a movie, but it’s a reality hitting close to home.
Vicki Hoff, manager of the Save Our Cats and Kittens (SOCKS) shelter in Fort Walton Beach, recently arrived at work one morning to find a box – wrapped in a garbage bag –sitting at the front door.
Earlier this week we sadly reported that our resident Loggerhead sea turtle, Gigi died. For those of you who may be visiting our area, Gigi’s home was the Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center. You will see a beautiful tribute to her on our Beach page. The people at the center who cared for her are going to miss her as will all of our Navarre residents. She had become the mascot of our area. I know they will begin the search for another sea turtle to care for soon. And I know their hearts are big enough to welcome another turtle in.
To paraphrase John Goodman as Walter Sobchak in the Coen Brothers’ 1998 crime comedy “The Big Lebowski”: “Just because we’re taxpayers doesn’t mean we’re saps.”
Even as talk of a new school in Navarre turns to action, a new high school facility could still be a decade away despite near maximum capacity projections, Superintendent Tim Wyrosdick said.
Board of County Commissioners Chairman Rob Williamson continued his third annual listening tour with a July 12 meeting at the Navarre Beach Visitors Center.
The proposed location for a new county courthouse on Avalon Boulevard is owned by a Pensacola businessman who is trying to roughly double his 2009 investment of $550,000 in the 19-acre site.