Opinion Archive

This week we have included our Fall Sports Guide which will give you a lot of information on all the sports that will be played this fall along with pictures of the teams, rosters and the calendar of games that are currently scheduled to be played.

We hope you use it throughout the fall to follow your favorite teams or team member. We will be updating each week in the paper – of course.

I have a good friend, Frank Manno, who is a professional photographer like no other.

What makes Frank unique is that he is legally blind. Retinitis pigmentosa is slowly robbing him of sight, and yet he takes amazing photographs.

We throw around words like hero, courage and bravery so easily at times, often without thinking about just how big of a deal those words really are.

Sometimes they are appropriate. But often, they don’t quite fit the situation we are describing.  The words fit when we are talking about Gavin Peaden.

I had a fleeting thought this morning when I saw at least five cars lined up at the corner of my house with parents and children waiting for the bus to arrive.

I wondered if my parents were throwing caution to the wind by letting me walk the .8 miles to school and .8 miles home from school every day in Orlando when I was 7 years old until I was 12 and moved on to middle school. The answer is no.

I recently made a mistake that was nonetheless correct.

Like some of you, I began typing with the hunt-and-peck method. I was certain that some fiend came in every night and rearranged all the keys.

It is with great sadness that we report on the loss of the historic Berryhill Elementary School building this week.

Students and teachers roamed its halls for 64 years, between 1926 and 1990, and many residents have fond memories of earlier, more innocent days spent there.

Meighan and I took our crazy, energetic, special in more ways than one chocolate lab to the Pensacola Blue Wahoos’ Bark in the Park night last week.

This wasn’t Greyson’s first rodeo at the special event the Double-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins hold once a year, giving canine companions, both large and small, a chance to hang out and watch a baseball game.

The Milton and Bagdad Riverfront Master Plan, completed in 2015, presents a grand vision for the future of The City Where Good Living Flows, a vision of a vibrant waterfront entertainment district.

It imagines a walkable mixed-use community with shops, restaurants, parks, a boardwalk extending between the two communities, and public river access, all embracing the historic downtown of a 19th-century river town.

There is an adage that asserts you can never truly go home because nothing stays the same, everything changes.

I recently spent two weeks in my hometown visiting family, my first trip since the pandemic, and the adage was proven true, nothing was as I remembered it.

Deshaun Watson set sports social media on fire last week after it was announced his suspension this coming NFL season will last only six games.

The ruling was made by Sue Robinson, the league’s disciplinary officer, and it seems like a crazy light sentence to serve based on the accusations against one of the biggest stars in the league.