Project Chess Club growing global game in Milton area
August 14, 2023
Robert Foil was fly-fishing in Mongolia when he realized only two games enjoy global popularity – soccer and chess.
Former detective who interrogated Ted Bundy speaks at Imogene Theatre
August 11, 2023
“The first thing I noticed were his eyes, he had steel, clear blue eyes.”
Norm Chapman, a former Pensacola Police chief and detective, is probably best known for interrogating one of America’s most famous serial killers, Theodore Robert Bundy. Better known as Ted.
Inline speedskating track is one of a kind
August 10, 2023
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.
Milton Garden Club celebrates 75 years of community service
August 9, 2023
Thirty women met to create the Milton Garden Club at 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 7, 1948; it was incorporated May 28 and by April 1949 it had joined the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, Deep South Region Garden Clubs and District 1 of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs.
Milton celebrates its 10th National Night Out
August 3, 2023
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.
UnForegettable experience for Sarah Edwards
July 31, 2023
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.
New cadets get feel for life in Pace NJROTC program
July 27, 2023
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.
Jay farmer receives Farm Press award for efficiency
July 25, 2023
If you have ever enjoyed a peanut M&M, then you can likely thank Ryan Jenkins for growing that peanut in his fields in Jay. Recently, Jenkins received recognition as the 2023 Farm Press Peanut Efficiency Award winner for the lower Southeast.
Jenkins, whose family has been farming in north Santa Rosa County for generations, was named the award winner for using farming practices that manage resources such as water and seed more efficiently.
Horse rehabilitation a passion for Milton nonprofit
July 18, 2023
For Rashelle Stewart, executive director of Tiny Acres Northwest Florida, Inc., helping horses is the ‘mane’ thing.
Tiny Acres Northwest Florida, Inc. is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to supporting and rehabilitating abused or neglected horses in Santa Rosa County.
Fish hatchery continues to aid unique shoal bass
July 14, 2023
Bob DeMauro, the fish hatchery manager at the Blackwater Fisheries Research & Development Center near Holt, is eager to see the latest results of the center’s ongoing efforts to replenish the Chipola River’s population of shoal bass.