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Out and About

Written by Sandi Kemp on December 18, 2014. Posted in Opinion, Out and About.

Last-minute holiday gift givers – we have the solution. If you can find someone without a subscription to Navarre Press – buy them one. We have a three-year deal that can be split up into three different subscriptions – or just give yourself two more years – and a friend one year. We will send them the bill next year – unless you tell us otherwise.

Attorney fighting for student caught with gun at NHS

Written by Staff Reporters on December 18, 2014. Posted in News.

Josh Neal Patton, the 17-year-old charged with possession of a firearm on a school campus after police said he brought a loaded gun to Navarre High School (NHS), appeared in court on the third-degree felony charge Dec. 12.

University, Seashore discuss possible land swap at Naval Oaks

Written by Staff Reporters on December 18, 2014. Posted in News.

The National Park Service’s Gulf Islands National Seashore (GUIS) and the University of West Florida (UWF) Sept. 30 entered into a five-year cooperative agreement which will temporarily provide available office space and housing to the school.

Wright leaves SRMC for North Carolina

Written by Staff Reporters on December 11, 2014. Posted in News.

After five years at the helm of Santa Rosa Medical Center, CEO Phillip Wright is moving on. He’s accepted a position in North Carolina starting Jan. 5.

The road to impropriety

Written by Staff Reporters on December 11, 2014. Posted in Editorial, Opinion.

Although the Santa Rosa Board of County Commissioners has a code of ethics, after Monday’s meeting, we thought perhaps a refresher course was in order.

Public outcry puts brakes on $15 beach road fee

Written by Staff Reporters on December 11, 2014. Posted in Beach.

Gulf Islands National Seashore Superintendent Dan Brown said a proposed plan to build booths and charge an admission to use J. Earle Bowden Way, the scenic route connecting Navarre and Pensacola beaches, will be scratched from further consideration, following a required six-week public comment period ending Jan. 2.

Cold weather shelter needs male volunteers

Written by Staff Reporters on December 11, 2014. Posted in News.

Although temperatures dropped below the threshold for the county’s only south Santa Rosa cold weather shelter to activate, the facility remained closed Dec. 8 and Dec. 9 due to a lack of male volunteers.

High court rejects BP appeal of spill settlement

Written by Associated Press on December 11, 2014. Posted in News.

The Supreme Court is leaving in place BP’s multibillion-dollar settlement with lawyers for businesses and residents over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Unusual partnership created between school district and inmates

Written by Staff Reporters on December 4, 2014. Posted in Education.

Schools seem like the last place prisoners might be welcomed, but an innovative community program is an exception.

Area crime just one reason to incorporate

Written by Staff Reporters on December 4, 2014. Posted in Editorial, Opinion.

Incorporation supporters have likened the incorporation wave to the Boston Tea Party—a stand against taxation without representation. They are angered by what they view as bloated and unresponsive county government and want greater control over how their taxes are spent. Proponents argue that the best way to make government responsive to community interests is to make it a community government.