Mention football and the chance to be around the Milton Panther freshman team throughout the week, including helping out on game day, and the face of Kohlton James lights up with a smile.
The sport means a ton to so many in this region, but it means a little more to Kohlton, whose journey has been drastically different than that of his peers.
On Wednesday, Sept. 6, retired K9 Idgie crossed the rainbow bridge.
K9 Idgie began her service with the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office and the Santa Rosa County School District in 2011 and worked happily until her retirement in 2018. K9 Idgie served as a partner to Deputy Marshall Holbrook, a drug dog and a family member.
If you walk into Milton’s Clyde L. Gracey Community Center on a Friday afternoon, you might hear guitars, fiddles and, maybe even a harmonica.
These sounds aren’t coming from a radio or a jukebox but from a group of seniors, gathered to perform and listen to each other play for a weekly event known as Pickin’ and Grinnin’.
Former Santa Rosa County Commissioner Don Salter passed away Sunday morning, August 20, 2023. Salter served District 3 for 20 years before retiring in 2020.
Santa Rosa County Animal Services is hosting Community Cat Days for Santa Rosa County residents Tuesday, Aug. 22, and Wednesday, Aug. 23, at Santa Rosa County Animal Shelter, 4451 Pine Forest Road in Milton. Up to 30 stray/feral cats will be accepted for free spay and neutering through community cats program funding.
All eyes from the inline speedskating community are on Milton with the completion of the track at Weber’s Skate World.
The governing body of inline speedskating came out with new designs for parabolic tracks that fits in with the new technology as well as the speeds now reached in skating.
The National Association of Town Watch – a nationwide network of law enforcement agencies, neighborhood watch groups, civic groups, state and regional crime prevention associations and volunteers – introduced the first National Night Out in August 1984. Two-and-a-half million people in 400 communities across 23 states participated.
A cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean was off to her right. And the opportunity of a lifetime was right in front of her.
Sarah Edwards stepped into the tee box on the 10th hole of the famed Pebble Beach Golf Course feeling every nerve and emotion imaginable as she readied herself to tee off at the LPGA’s U.S. Women’s Open Championship for the first time in her life in early July.
Alexis Parker remembers her time as a first-year cadet and going through the week-long Pace NJROTC NS1 camp that gives newcomers a feel for what life will be like in the program and what it takes to be successful in it.
Three years later, Parker, a senior, is the commanding officer of a unit that has won the last three national championships, and she’s come a long way and is ready to embrace her new responsibilities.
