Apr 16, 2025
Apr 14, 2025
Author John T Edge visiting Northwest Florida for lecture series on Southern food
In the American South, food takes a place on the cultural mantel piece along with rocking chairs and banjo music.
Even in today’s South, where people are more transient and familial connections to the past are often forgotten, you can still find hole-in-the-wall restaurants serving family recipes of gumbo, fried fish, slaw or barbecue.
Chances are if you take a seat at one of these places, you might find yourself sharing a meal with John T. Edge.
Apr 14, 2025
2025 Annual Youth Livestock Show
On Saturday, April 12, 4-H and FFA contestants participated in the Annual Youth Livestock Show. Students were able to demonstrate their skills for taking care of livestock and were judged based not only on their performance but the animals as well.
Apr 14, 2025
Third Annual All Moms All Babies Color Run
On April 12, the Florida Department of Health hosted its Third Annual All Moms All Babies Color Run, celebrating National Minority Health Month and promoting breastfeeding for all babies.
Apr 8, 2025
City of Milton to Celebrate Arbor Day with Tree Planting at Milton High School
MILTON, Fla. – The City of Milton is proud to continue its longstanding commitment to urban forestry by celebrating Arbor Day with a special tree planting ceremony at Milton High School on April 25, 2025, at 12:30 p.m.
Apr 7, 2025
Sports Ability Games offer athletic opportunities to special needs students
Students from 16 schools in Santa Rosa County descended upon Pace High School’s football field for the inaugural north end edition of the Zack Butler Memorial Sports Ability Games Thursday, April 3.
Named for a physical education teacher and coach who lost his battle with cancer in 2022, the Sports Ability Games are designed to expand the field of opportunity for special needs students in athletics.
Apr 4, 2025
Spring Festival of Flowers at Pensacola State College, Milton campus
Friday, April 4, kicked off the three-day Spring Festival of Flowers event at the Pensacola State College Milton Campus.
Mar 31, 2025
Bees, and how they changed a Milton couple’s life
One local Milton resident picked up beekeeping as a hobby, now honeybees live in her backyard and her heart.
Honeybees are practically in Conni Carnley’s DNA. Her grandfather and aunt both had a history of beekeeping, and she has fond memories of visiting her aunt’s hive in her youth. But it was not until 2014 that she decided to pick up the hobby herself. Now she and her husband, Danny, manage 46 hives.
Mar 28, 2025
Basketball game serving as fundraiser for Milton student
It will be basketball for a good cause when Milton Panther basketball players take on members of the staff in a game at the Panther Den on April 7. Game time is 6:30 p.m.
The money raised will benefit the family of Milton High student Kira Wagner, who had a life-saving heart transplant in February.
The money raised will benefit the family of Milton High student Kira Wagner, who had a life-saving heart transplant in February.
Mar 25, 2025
FarmHouse Fair event educational, entertaining, successful
The FarmHouse Fair event on Saturday, March 22, featured speakers on homesteading, local sellers, food trucks, and music.
Ladies Skill Sharing founder Rachel Wallace hosted the event. She believes the traditional style of providing families with food raised, grown, or foraged from the backyard is a skill that everyone can and should learn.