Funeral services for former Milton City Councilwoman Sharon Holley, who died Sunday at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, will begin with visitation at 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 26, at Beaver Creek Baptist Church, 6989 Beaver Creek Highway in Baker, followed by interment.
Santa Rosa County is no stranger to the military.
It is home to NAS Whiting Field and part of Eglin Air Force Base, with Hurlburt Field and NAS Pensacola in adjacent counties. With many bases in the area, there are many families in Santa Rosa County with ties to the military.
This spring enjoy National Garden Month with homegrown herbs.
Each April, this monthlong observance brings together gardeners, gardening groups and those new to gardening to share tips and offer support for a bountiful season.
The unpredictability of nature is a known unknown for most farmers; blueberry growers included.
The weather and feathered visitors have set back what seemed at one time to be an early opening for Blue Basket Farms’ “u-pick” blueberry season.
Santa Rosa County District Schools Student Services Department is hosting a Wellness Expo from 6-7:30 p.m. tonight in the Pace High School gymnasium. The expo will feature local agencies and organizations connecting the community to mental and physical wellness resources.
Pete Griffin and Dewayne Vasquez grew up together in Milton. As boys, they built a tree fort from which they hunted guinea hens with pellet guns in a field near their neighborhood.
“We never wound up killing any of them, but we tried for months,” Vasquez remembered last week. “We were 8 or 9 years old; we didn’t really know what we were doing, but we kept at it. We knew we were definitely doing something most kids don’t get to do.”
The Santa Rosa County Tourist Development Council agreed last week to fund development of a Native American cultural gallery in Milton.
Dan Helms, chief of the Santa Rosa County Band of the Lower Muscogee, described the project and asked for $70,000 from the TDC at its April 6 board meeting. After a brief discussion, the board voted unanimously to provide the whole amount from its reserve funds.
Braxton Parker always knew he wanted to be a chef; he just didn’t know he would be recognized for it at such an early age.
Parker, a third-grade student at Rhodes Elementary School, won Santa Rosa County District Schools’ 2023 Sodexo Future Chefs Challenge. His official title after winning the competition is Santa Rosa County Future Chef Grand Champion.
It sounds like “CPR” for a reason: Suicide prevention advocates want “QPR” – Question, Persuade, Refer – to become as well known as the life-saving acronym for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
