Community Archive

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.”

Every Summer, just before children return to the classrooms, United Way of West Florida and other community partners come together to help get students the tools they need to make the school year successful.

On July 21, they will do that again with “Stuff the Bus.”

In the movie “Bull Durham,” catcher Crash Davis offers a philosophical take on the Durham Bulls baseball teams’ losing streak: “Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. Sometimes, it rains.”

This weekend in Milton it rained, cutting short Volunteer Santa Rosa Day and adding new challenges to the Santa Rosa County Amateur Radio Emergency Service’s annual field day exercise at the SRC Emergency Management Center.

Milton NJROTC cadets spent part of their Memorial Day placing flags on the graves of veterans.

A total of 35 cadets participated and were at the Milton cemetery for nearly three hours before heading over to the Memorial Day Ceremony, where they presented colors and laid wreaths on behalf of veteran groups.

Musician Scott Slay, who fronts the Denver-based bluegrass/folk/country band Scott Slay and the Rail, is looking forward to a sort of homecoming this weekend.

The band, formed in 2015, is the first act to headline the Imogene Concert Series at the Historic Imogene Theatre on Caroline Street, but it won’t be Slay’s first performance at the venerable venue.

The Pensacola Navy League recently announced that a special visitor would be coming to the Emerald Coast during the first weekend in June.

America’s Tall Ship, the USCGC Barque Eagle will moor downtown Pensacola at Plaza De Luna from Thursday, June 2 to Sunday, June 5.