Community Archive

Milton is looking for help cleaning up Carpenter’s Park.

The city’s second Community Redevelopment Area workday is Saturday, which also happens to be National Public Lands Day.

For most people, skating is just another fun activity to do. For David Weber, it is a lifestyle.

Weber, who owns Weber’s Skate World in Milton, has been skating for 43 years and is the coach for the Emerald Coast Speed Team, which features about 100 skaters of various ages.

If you’ve walked around downtown Pensacola at any point over the summer, you may have wondered why there is now a painted maroon line that weaves from street to street.

On Sunday, Aug. 14, people got their answer.

Although it only just started, the Market of Pace has certainly made its mark.

Allison Hartman, the owner of the Market, says that within just the first month, it attracted serious vendor interest.

Tucked away in rural Santa Rosa County within the Blackwater River Forest sits an operation that has been critical to recovery efforts of the Chipola River Shoal Bass population.

In existence for 80 years, the nearly 600-acre Blackwater Fisheries Research and Development Center in Holt has been at the center of helping to revive a species of fish that was devastated by Hurricane Michael in October of 2018.

Alonzo Samuel has coached hundreds of young Milton athletes over the past 36 years, starting with his own children in 1985. Most folks just call him “Coach Sam.”

The City of Milton will show its appreciation Saturday by naming its youth football field in his honor. The day will start at 10 a.m. at the Clyde L. Gracey Community Center, 5629 Byrom Street, with a ceremony honoring the long-time volunteer, aircraft mechanic and pastor.

A Milton-based group of beekeepers are looking to get the word out on the importance of bees and promote beekeeping. One of these beekeepers is Frank Miller.

Miller is in his fifth year of beekeeping and his first year as president of the Santa Rosa Beekeeping Association.

Eating beans on toast for breakfast was just one of Sara Boles’ experiences this summer.

“The cuisine was very…different,” the 20-year-old Milton High School graduate told the Press Gazette last week. “We ate breakfast and lunch at the Oxford dining hall every day, so we got to eat what the other students were eating.”