Halloween is Sunday, but the Beasts of Bennie Russell rampaged across the gridiron Friday in Navarre.

“I thought we played great defense,” Navarre High School football coach Chad Lashley said after the Raiders dismantled District 1-4A rival Escambia 51-7 at Bennett C. Russell Stadium. “We were gap-sound and had great hustle to the ball.”

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Robledal Estates is, by all accounts, a peaceful subdivision.

Situated just north of East Bay Boulevard, the houses on these streets are bigger than most, and the tranquil waters of nearby Redfish Cove lend to the neighborhood’s quiet charm.

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Many questions remain unanswered, but a new effort to let Santa Rosa Island leaseholders own their property is underway.

“This isn’t going to happen overnight,”  Escambia County Commission Chairman Grover Robinson IV said Monday in Milton during a joint meeting of Escambia and Santa Rosa county commissioners. “We’re not advocating any one position or another, this is about being able to give our leaseholders more options.”

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Just last year, the students at Holley-Navarre Middle School didn’t have a robotics team, a club dedicated to all things engineering, technology and science.

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At 48 years old, Wendy Williams was a lot of things: A wife, a mother, a sister.

Now, two years later, Williams can add one more thing to her list:  Survivor.

It’s a title she didn’t expect to receive.

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Joe Nettleton shouldn’t have looked down.

He’d finished the first leg of the Santa Rosa Island Triathlon, a 600-yard swim, was peddling through the 16th mile of an 18-mile bike course and was thinking ahead to running the final 3.2 miles to finish his first triathlon.

He shouldn’t have looked down, but he did.

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