Santa Rosa government and local announcements, events and activities are as follows. UPCOMING PACE CHAMBER ANNUAL MEETING, AWARDS BANQUET: 6 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Santa Rosa County Auditorium, 4530 Spikes Way, Milton. Sponsorships and donations are available. Tickets are $25 per person and may be picked up weekdays at the chamber office, 4344 U.S.… Continue reading Untitled
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Santa wants to do more to answer children’s Christmas wishes
MILTON — Santa and his elves got some unexpected responses from the children of Santa Rosa County at the Light Up Milton festivities this year.
Mike Bell and his volunteer Santa crew tried somethi…
Sowell Farms gaining notoriety as a wedding venue
MILTON — Sowell Farms is known for its Christmas lights display each December. Now it is becoming the place to go to have a wedding.
Sowell Farms won first place for the best ceremony venue in the…
NAS Whiting Field celebrates Tree City USA’s 43rd anniversary
MILTON — Naval Air Station Whiting Field marked the 43rd anniversary of the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree City USA program this week by planting a Nuttall oak tree on the installation.
NAS Whiting F…
Christmas pageant includes entertaining twist
PACE — Once again the Panhandle Community Theatre plans to feature the classic tale of the rough-and-tumble Herdman kids acting in a Christmas pageant, even though they know nothing about the story o…
King’s Middle gives back to homeless students
King Middle School’s Student Government Association’s Co-Presidents Maryanne Gunter and Hattie Lee led a Bubbles and Suds project to provide grooming and laundry products to the homeless students att…
Woods is 35,000th helicopter pilot winged at Whiting
MILTON — Call it what you want, luck, fate, being at the right place at the right time or just having the right letter of the alphabet in your last name.
LTJG Robert P. Woods received his Wings of…
Santa Rosa County animal shelter drops cat adoption fees for Nov. 30
MILTON — The Santa Rosa County Animal Shelter has recently seen a dramatic increase in the intake of cats and kittens. To help get as many cats rehomed as possible, the shelter is canceling all adopt…
WHAT CAN BE SAVED: Bringing the world's buried wetlands back from the dead
These are not the kind of phantoms that scare or haunt — they are ghost ponds. Over the years, landowners buried them, filling in wetlands so they had more land for planting crops and other needs, or…
Milton bakery earns state-wide recognition
MILTON — Bakery manufacturer and ingredient supplier Dawn Foods recently announced the winners of its annual Sweetest Bakery in America contest and local favorite Milton Quality Bakery took top honor…