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 skeletal remains discovered in the woods off the 4100 block of Popcorn Road in Bagdad Jan. 11 have been identified as Cameron Belanger, 25, Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Jan. 30.
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.
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.
Duke Field – From the top of the air traffic control tower, kids scanned the 360-view as aircraft converged on the airfield. This occasion was their first glimpse into the world of aviation.
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.
Each year, Santa Rosa District Schools gather members of the school board, Santa Rosa Education Foundation and the community together to surprise the pick for Santa Rosa Teacher of the Year. This year, the group ventured to Allentown to announce Christal Bennett, Central School’s band teacher, as the district’s best.
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.
The Milton City Council has a difficult decision to make: Saddle the city with massive debt, find partners to share costs, or scrap plans to build a new wastewater plant and pay Pace Water System to take the city’s raw sewage.
