It’s impossible to discuss Milton’s history without mentioning – often – Mt. Pilgrim African Baptist Church.
Its congregation traces its history to antebellum times, when Blacks – many likely enslaved people working on a nearby plantation – and whites worshipped together at First Baptist Church (founded in 1845).
Head coach Kara Lay wasn’t quite sure how her players, mostly middle-school-aged, were going to respond to a 54-20 defeat at the hands of 1A Jay in early December, especially after the Lions had cruised past their first four opponents by 30 or more points.
It didn’t take long to get an answer.
When Ava Grace Wheaton scored with seven minutes to play in a postseason game that had already been decided, there were a few tears, perhaps the reality setting in that her prep soccer career and this season were about to come to end.
Her tally dented the scoreboard but did nothing to change the outcome of a 4-1 Region 1-6A quarterfinal loss to Gulf Breeze on a cool Tuesday evening at Dolphin Stadium.
Occasionally in life, we have watershed moments, some life-defining occurrence that suddenly sends our life or our perspective on life in a different direction.
I have had several watershed moments in my life, and the Apostle Paul’s words in Philippians 1:21 reminded me of one of them.
It’s a small world. When I first started writing here in Florida, covering sports for the Navarre Press – a role that has since stretched into the Press Gazette – Joe Surratt helped coach track with his wife, Mimi, at Navarre.
I never imagined he’d one day become the head coach of a start-up high school program, especially at Central, which, for the record, I had no idea even existed when I arrived in the area.
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The debate whether to widen Caroline Street through Milton is over, or it should be.
It should have ended in 2019, when the Florida Department of Transportation announced its preferred route to improve U.S. Highway 90 traffic flow through the city after a five-year project development and environment (PD&E) study.
Every January, people make new year’s resolutions. For some, it’s exercising more. For others, it’s focusing on their mental health.
And for members of local churches, like East Bay Church and Momentum Church, it’s about getting reacquainted in their relationship with Jesus Christ.
Cooper Littlefield scored 10 of his 12 points in the fourth quarter to help lead Pace past Crestview in a key District 1-6A game Thursday night in Crestview.
Littlefield buried two 3-pointers in the period to help finish off a second-half rally. Pace went into halftime down 23-18.
Up until a minute left in the third quarter, Pace’s boys basketball team was on the cusp of taking control of its game against Crestview.
The Patriots trailed by only three, and then with the final seconds winding down on the clock, the Bulldogs got a 3-pointer off that swayed the momentum in the other direction.
