Tallahassee — With backing from Speaker Paul Renner, a House panel last week approved a bill that would lower the minimum age to buy rifles and other long guns in Florida from 21 to 18.
The bill (HB 1543) would reverse part of a 2018 law that set the minimum age at 21 after a gunman killed 17 students and faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Nikolas Cruz, then 19, used a semi-automatic rifle to carry out the attack.
After spotting host Walton two runs in the first inning, the Baker Lady Gator softball team found itself playing catchup all night.
Unfortunately for the Lady Gators, they never could catch up in a 7-3 loss.
In this business, you see a lot of press releases come into your email inbox.
A lot of them are very useful, about our communities and the people and events in them that we are happy to share.
There is an old Chinese proverb that says “if your enemy wrongs you, buy his children drums.”
Revenge.
How often people want to seek revenge to make another person hurt the way we have been made to hurt. This is how most people want to react. Unfortunately, revenge perpetuates itself.
We were saddened to hear about the shooting death of an Orlando journalist, Dylan Lyons, who was covering a crime scene.
A man shot a 38-year-old woman and then returned to the scene later that day and went on a shooting spree. He killed Lyons, seriously wounded a photojournalist, and killed a 9-year-old girl in addition to the woman he killed earlier in the day. Lyons was at the scene of the morning shooting to cover the murder.
I question the logic of the Florida High School Athletic Association. In recent years the FHSAA has tried to get the best teams into the playoffs. That’s something that I admire.
The way in which it is going about the task is something I question.
Crestview High School baseball coach Tim Gillis has been around the game for the better part of 50 years dating back to his days playing youth baseball here in Crestview.
But he never tires of welcoming a new season when hope springs eternal.
When most people think of the month of February, their thoughts probably turn to Valentine’s Day, Black History Month or, perhaps, Presidents Day.
When I think of February, I think of surgeries. On Feb. 22, 2003, I had the first of two neck surgeries. Three years ago, on Feb. 21, 2020, had radiation placement surgery for prostate cancer.
Laurel Hill and Baker squared off in boys basketball for the third time in the 2022-23 season on Monday. The first two games were regular season meetings won by the Gators.
Monday’s game was the opening round of the District 1-1A tournament. The results were the same in the game played at Baker, the Gators won. The final score was 63-34.
Last week in this spot, we congratulated the City of Crestview and Mayor JB Whitten on organizing and hosting the successful Overdose Summit last month.
It truly was an initiative worth applauding. We ended that editorial with a challenge to the city to continue its work.
