Category: local

MILTON — Any registered and qualified voter in Santa Rosa County may vote using a vote-by-mail ballot. Requests can be made for a single election or for all elections through the next two general ele…

PACE — Residents of Pace could be getting a community center in the near future thanks to the Friends of the Pace Library. Tom Twarkins, a representative of the Friends of the Pace Library private no…

PENSACOLA — Two Milton nonprofits were among four in the Pensacola Bay area awarded $25,000 each in grant awards from Sunday's Child, a Pensacola Bay Area nonprofit that promotes LGBT acceptance and …

GAINESVILLE — A drug used to help kidney transplant recipients ward off rejection of their new organs is showing promise in another area: preserving insulin production in newly diagnosed Type 1 diabe…

PACE — Sacred Heart Medical Park in Pace now offers three-dimensional imaging of the breast to provide women with better technology that can help physicians detect breast cancer earlier and with even…

PENSACOLA — Lakeview Center, Inc., welcomes several new medical staff members to its team.
Renee McCorcle , PMHNP, works in the adult outpatient setting at Lakeview Center’s main campus. She also e…

JAY — SWAT students representing the Florida Department of Health in Santa Rosa County are wasting no time making this an active year in tobacco free advocacy. Newly appointed county SWAT officers, J…

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission enacted several changes to the management of tripletail and sheepshead. They go into effect July 1 and include: 
Tripletail

The minimum s…

MILTON — During the 2017-2018 school year, 43 youth in Santa Rosa County have transitioned from a Department of Juvenile Justice facility back into our school district. Additionally, as of May 2018, …