Sep 13, 2017
Santa Rosa County has five National Merit Scholarship finalists
EVANSTON, Ill. — Of 16,000 semifinalists officials selected for the 63rd annual National Merit Scholarship, five come from Santa Rosa County, according to National Merit Scholarship Corporation offic…
Sep 10, 2017
Santa Rosa teachers reject contract revisions
MILTON — The Santa Rosa County School District employees rejected the district’s proposed contract revisions for the 2016-2017 school year in a ratification vote held Sept. 5 and 6.
With 59 percent…
Sep 8, 2017
Gulf Breeze students place in national history competition
MILTON — National History Day is an annual contest where students create websites, performances, exhibits, papers and documentaries related to historical events and people. In June, three Santa Rosa …
Sep 7, 2017
Pace Rotary members learn about Pea Ridge Elementary outreach
PACE — The Pace Rotary Club’s recent guest speakers were Brenda Dwiggins (Pea Ridge Elementary assistant principal) and Sue Collier (STEAM teacher at Pea Ridge Elementary).
Dwiggins and Collier cam…
Sep 6, 2017
Pace teacher awarded $2K grant for sports journalism program
Since 1996, the Voya Unsung Heroes program has awarded more than $5 million to help the nation’s educators turn creative teaching ideas into reality.
Voya Financial Inc., a provider of workplace re…
Sep 5, 2017
'It's about ending homelessness and poverty'
MILTON — As the Santa Rosa County School District Director of Federal Programs and President of the nonprofit Bridges out of Poverty Santa Rosa, Karen Barber has spent the last 31 years seeking to im…
Aug 31, 2017
Navarre resident among Baylor University graduates
WACO, Texas — Baylor University conferred degrees on nearly 500 graduates during recent summer commencement exercises in the Ferrell Center on the Baylor campus.
Among the graduates was Allison Mar…