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Out and About

This weekend Friday afternoon – Saturday evening is Fun Fest in the main parking lot of Navarre Beach. There is a lot of information in this issue about the line-up of artists that will be taking the stage. There are 44 arts and crafts booths and 19 commercial type booths along with a great children’s area and food vendors. There is a map inside of “Who is Where.” There is a 5k run Saturday morning (for those of you that wanted to go to Boston) and the event will end with fireworks Saturday evening. Navarre Press will be there and ready, willing and able to take your subscription renewal. We usually come up with some kind of value added prize for subscribers that renew. Just so our subscribers know – we do not give a better deal to people that are new subscribers. We want to reward our loyal subscribers. Our subscribers have access to everything our new subscribers get – if not more. A lot of our subscribers are locked it at the rate that they first subscribed at because they are on auto renew of their subscription. Please make sure you ask us about that when you are meandering through all of the booths at Fun Fest. I heard that there will be a lot of candidates at Fun Fest. This would be a good time to you to talk to them in person. Bring a list of questions with you. I’m sure they would love to answer any/all questions you have.

Lauren’s Kids walk Highway 98 for sexual abuse prevention

Lauren Book, founder of Lauren’s Kids, was a victim of childhood sexual abuse for six years at the hands of her nanny. Armed with the knowledge that 95 percent of sexual abuse is preventable through education, Lauren sought to turn her experience into a vehicle to prevent childhood sexual abuse and heal survivors.

Reef project construction could start this year

Bob Boston of Navarre updated commissioners April 21 on two Navarre Beach reef projects selected for early restoration funding resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.  Permitting is complete for one project and should be complete for another next month – construction for both may start this fall.

Logistics big business, big opportunities

About 30 elected officials and business leaders attended a Florida Chamber of Commerce half-day conference in Pensacola April 18 highlighting the importance of trade and logistics to the region and the state. The conference was the third regional rollout for the chamber’s Trade & logistics Study 2.0.

Major construction projects set for 2015

Two major construction projects, totaling more than $50 million, are set to begin along Hwy. 87 South next year. An additional span across Yellow River Bridge and the expansion of a two-lane section of the roadway to four lanes, from Holley to 2 miles south of the bridge is planned.

Special courthouse meeting

More than 80 people attended a special county commission meeting held Monday evening to discuss sites for the proposed new courthouse. County officials lined up state and local agency representatives to address issues related to potential East Milton sites – one of which is planned to be placed on this year’s ballot. Residents also got to speak out at the end of the meeting.

Prosecutor praised for putting sex offenders behind bars

Assistant State Attorney Stephanie G. Pace saw two child sexual offenders in high-profile cases that she prosecuted get lengthy sentences last week. Donzell Nuckles received a 330-year sentence April 15, and the next day Ernest Parker was sentenced to 25 years in state prison.

Local woman sentenced for animal cruelty

A local woman, 41-year-old Toni Phelps, was sentenced April 16 to 12 months behind bars and 10 years probation  for crimes resulting in the death of three dogs and three cats in her Navarre home in 2012. According to State Attorney Bill Eddins, Phelps entered a plea Feb. 17, 2014, to six counts of Animal Cruelty, six counts of Depriving an Animal of Food or Water and Public Nuisance.

Burglar sentenced to 20 years

Santa Rosa Circuit Court Judge John L. Miller April 15 sentenced 29-year-old Devon Deshane Washington of Milton to 20 years in prison from charges stemming from a June 2013 burglary.

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