The City of Milton soon will star in its own promotional video series.

According to the National League of Cities, its Community Showcase Video Program – produced by CGI Digital – helps municipalities promote themselves “through the power of video and digital media tools.”

Richard Wood, a Milton history and true crime buff, recently published “Mayhem in the Florida Panhandle,” a book of true stories culled from newspaper archives and numerous conversations with residents.

Brandon Savoie, a freelance videographer for CGI Digital’s Community Showcase Video Program, focuses on City of Milton employees Jay Conrad and Jacob Hullett as they kayak along the eastern shore of the Blackwater River. Sponsors pay for the video, there is no cost to the city.

Dora Wiggins Thrash celebrated her 100th birthday Saturday, Oct. 15, with friends and family at First Baptist Church of Milton.

That’s 36,525 days (including 25 leap days). Asked how she achieved such longevity, Mrs. Thrash didn’t divulge a secret diet or exercise regimen; instead, the (almost) life-long Santa Rosa County resident shared practical wisdom.

Friday night lights will be coming to Allentown in 2023.

At a pep rally to celebrate the Central Jaguars Youth Football program, Central School principal Klint Lay announced that school will field a high school team beginning next school year.

One in eight women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime, according to breastcancer.org. One in 10 women in the U.S. are uninsured.

In 2020, Florida was among the states reporting the highest percentages of uninsured nonelderly women at 12%-22%, as stated by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The Heritage Festival in Munson took place this past weekend at the Krul Lake recreation area in the Blackwater River State Forest.

The festival highlighted a time when life was much slower and there was a different way of doing things.

Building a football program from scratch isn’t easy; some days it’s downright humbling.

The Central Jaguars under-12 and under-14 youth football teams lost to Gulf Breeze 28-0 and 36-6, respectively, on a beautiful Saturday at the Salvation Army Field, 1501 North Q Street in Pensacola.

Milton is looking for help cleaning up Carpenter’s Park.

The city’s second Community Redevelopment Area workday is Saturday, which also happens to be National Public Lands Day.

For most people, skating is just another fun activity to do. For David Weber, it is a lifestyle.

Weber, who owns Weber’s Skate World in Milton, has been skating for 43 years and is the coach for the Emerald Coast Speed Team, which features about 100 skaters of various ages.