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…
Aug 25, 2017
'There are countless benefits'
MILTON — August doesn’t mean returning to a campus for everyone — approximately 3.4 percent of school aged children in the United States are home-schooled, according to the U.S. Department of Educati…
Aug 24, 2017
Two Santa Rosa teachers study digital learning environments
April Ballard and Sasha Tiwari, teachers from Dixon Intermediate School and West Navarre Primary School, recently joined more than 100 fellow educators from around the world for the 2017 DEN Summer I…
Aug 22, 2017
'This is not going to be a cookie-cutter daycare'
MILTON — A new daycare facility has opened in Milton, with a completely remodeled interior and flexible hours.
Glover Lane Learning Center was completely redone, from an all-new air conditioning s…
Aug 22, 2017
Weather spoils solar eclipse
MILTON — Due to pervasive cloud cover, anyone watching Monday’s solar eclipse would only have seen a slightly darker sky than what the clouds would produce.
Milton High School students attempted to…