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Eglin project Phase 1A to expand with change order

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on February 23, 2024. Posted in News.

The Eglin Reuse Project, also known as the Santa Rosa Reuse Project and the Eglin RIBs Project, is currently in Phase 1A. Land on Eglin Air Force Base is being cleared and prepared for the eventual arrival of a Holley Navarre Water System spray field.

Central’s Bennett named district Teacher of the Year

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on January 29, 2024. Posted in Education, News.

Each year, Santa Rosa District Schools gather members of the school board, Santa Rosa Education Foundation and the community together to surprise the pick for Santa Rosa Teacher of the Year. This year, the group ventured to Allentown to announce Christal Bennett, Central School’s band teacher, as the district’s best.

Second annual Pensacola Bay Snake Report provides insight into serpent numbers

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on January 15, 2024. Posted in News.

When some people hear the word, “snake,” it often elicits responses such as screams or shivers up the spine. While a fear of snakes, which sometimes manifests itself in ophidiophobia, a more intense fear of snakes, may be common, it doesn’t negate the fact they are here.

Fill the Mayflower food drive collects more than 47K meals

Written by Staff Reporters on November 29, 2023. Posted in Community.

The 16th Annual Fill the Mayflower food and funds drive – presented by Coastal Moving and Storage and benefitting Manna Food Bank – was a success, raising the equivalent of more than 47,000 healthy meals for neighbors in need in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties! Food collected during Fill the Mayflower at Cordova Mall will be distributed through Manna’s pantry and 17 food security programs in the two-county area.

Faith-based organizations should participate in plan for community service

Written by Staff Reporters on November 27, 2023. Posted in Editorial, Opinion.

Everyone would agree that it’s important to help and protect the truly needy and vulnerable in our society. How best to provide that service is a much more contentious issue. On one extreme, people argue that only the state has the wealth and power for such a mission; on the other, people object to government taking any more money from the public (in the form of taxes) and suggest government bureaucracy is too inefficient and wasteful.

Holley Navarre Primary’s Whitman ‘STEAM’ driven

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on November 22, 2023. Posted in Education.

For Stephanie Whitman, being a teacher is a team effort. From students working with teachers to teachers working with other teachers to provide the best education possible, collaboration is key.

Whitman, who teaches first grade at Holley Navarre Primary School, was recently named her school’s teacher of the year. It is the first time she has been given the honor.

Treatment: ‘more than not taking a drug’

Written by Hansen Hasenberg on November 16, 2023. Posted in News.

Fentanyl usage has reached a crisis point in the United States. The potent and dangerous synthetic opioid, which is oftentimes mixed with other drugs like heroin and methamphetamine, is the leading cause of death in adults aged 18-45, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

State invests in faith-based organizations to help communities

Written by Ken Garner on October 23, 2023. Posted in News.

The Northwest Florida Health Network told church and faith-based nonprofit leaders last week that it can fund their community-based social services without interfering in how those services are provided.

“Governor DeSantis has had his people do all the legal work,” the Rev. Rick Hazelip of First City Church said Thursday, Oct. 19, at a “Faith Summit” at Brownsville Church. “All we have to do is open up our services to anybody, regardless of their beliefs. And then we do what we do.”

Out and About

Written by Sandi Kemp on October 3, 2023. Posted in Opinion, Out and About.

Someone recently thought that we left someone off the arrest report on purpose – luckily, we found that person in our arrest reports.

Why is that important? Because our integrity matters.

Out and About

Written by Sandi Kemp on September 26, 2023. Posted in Opinion, Out and About.

Fall is officially here, although the 87-degree temperatures don’t convince me. The mornings are a little cooler, but when you are still in the upper 80s during the day, we will just keep waiting for the temperatures to catch up with the months they are supposed to be in.