The Gulf Breeze Zoo will host “Giraffe Day” at 9:30 a.m. Friday, when Kenya, a 15-foot-tall female reticulated giraffe, will predict not only how long we have to wait for warmer weather BUT ALSO the winner of Super Bowl LVIII.

To get the community more involved with W. H. Rhodes Elementary School, the administration decided to get the school more involved with the community. That’s how Junior Ambassadors got started.

The Krewe of Airship Pirates, organizers of the Milton Mardi Gras Parade, guessed right when they postponed the event from Saturday to Sunday to avoid wet weather.

When a McDonald’s employee asked her manager if a Christian Life Church men’s Bible study group could meet in the store’s dining area, he asked one question:

North Santa Rosa County experienced a “hard freeze” five out of six days in mid-January, but Ryan Jenkins of Jenkins Farms in Jay said the effect on area crops is minimal.

Dr. John Walker, a Milton native who attended Mt. Pilgrim African Baptist Church and graduated with the Milton High School Class of 1985, had a momentous 2023. He earned a Doctor of Theology degree from The Empowerment Theological Institute & Bible Seminary and published his first book, “I Decree Your Apocalypse: Uncover Your Mystery.”

Allison and Daniel Hartman have 11 children ranging in age from 3 to 25. Parenting for a quarter century, with another decade-and-a-half in front of them, Allison said the Hartmans have “kind of a different take on raising a family.” “What I’m seeing is a lot of coddling and ‘helicopter moms,’ parents who do basically anything for their kids,” she said. “Then when their kids graduate, they send them off to college and expect everything to work out.” With her church leaders’ blessing, Allison organized the “Raising Adults, Not Children” conference, to be held from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, at Woodbine Baptist Church, 4912 Woodbine Road.

A new property owner hopes to build a native nursery and urban farm in Holley and an established Navarre neighborhood wants to stop a neighbor from building an 80-unit apartment complex overlooking their single-family homes.

A state-of-the-art, 200-meter outdoor parabolic speedskating track garnered rave reviews after its competitive debut earlier this month.