Here’s how two mothers in the same county have totally different views on masks in schools
Like many moms of teens, Rachael Colón has to rush in the mornings to get her daughter up and ready for school. Maleah, 16, likes to sleep in. As she runs out the door to catch the bus, her mother makes sure she has her mask.
Maleah has asthma and many other students at Navarre High School no longer wear masks, her mom tells CNN, wearing a KN95 mask as she chats outside.
“It’s a very simple means to help prevent disease spread, and it’s been something that people have been doing for years,” she said. “Every time you go to your dentist’s office or you go to have surgery, people are wearing a mask.”
April 29, 2021
The Pace Patriots stunned the Tate Aggies with a 14-1 win Wednesday afternoon in the District 1-6A semifinals at Navarre High School.
In two and two-third innings, Josiah Glodfelter gave up 11 runs and seven hits while walking five and striking out four. Riley Lowery threw two and a third innings in relief, giving up two hits and three runs while walking two.
At the plate, Drew Reaves went 2-3 to lead the Aggies. Cade Kelly, Jackson Penton and Bray Touchstone added one hit each.
Also Tuesday, Niceville beat Crestview 8-0. Niceville will take on Pace Thursday night for the District 1-6A title.
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No schools in Escambia or Santa Rosa counties cracked the top 100 of Florida High Schools in a 2021 rankings report released by U.S. News & World Report this week.
The U.S. News Best High Schools rankings include data on almost 24,000 public high schools and K-12 schools across the country. It ranks almost 18,000 of them. According to U.S. News and World Report, 602 of Florida s more than 1,000 public schools made the list.
Gulf Breeze High School ranked the highest from the two-county area, coming in at No. 107 in the state and No. 1,845 in the country. Gulf Breeze has 1,811 students, with a graduation rate of 98%.
Single counts of lewd and lascivious battery against a child between the ages of 12-16 and sexual assault on a minor were added in March, court records show.
Close-Hallmark, 35, Destin, was already facing single counts of each of those charges as well as a charge of soliciting or engaging in lewd conduct with a student while acting in a position of authority.
Bosau, who will prosecute the case against Close-Hallmark, said Osceola County criminal investigators had uncovered sufficient evidence to allow for the filing of the latest charges.
Bosau said the events from which the latest charges stem took place during the same time frame that sexual encounters were occurring in Okaloosa County.