Helping Hands

Tuesday farmers in Santa Rosa County took food grown locally and got it to the tables of those who needed it, the ones who without it might not have had a Thanksgiving meal.
In conjunction with th…

Seasonal shopping under way

Holiday shopping in local area is alive and well!
That’s the outlook of most area business managers and a chamber of commerce executive director here following “Black Friday,” the year’s most inte…

Holiday Duty

Most of us enjoyed Thanksgiving with the family, but some were ready to spring into action despite the occasion Thursday.
Fire fighters, doctors, nurses, law enforcement, and select others either …

Tuffy opens new retail store in Milton

Responding to these “tough times”, Tuffy, A Real American Quarter Horse, LLC opens new retail business designed to educate, inspire, and enable others to succeed. 
Tuffy, a local horse that has be…

Scratch Ankle set to return March 14

With a sense of nostalgia, Milton councilmen (and women) have decided to resume sponsorship of Scratch Ankle, taking up where they left off when the festival was a kinder, gentler celebration.
Ori…

News Briefs – Nov. 21, 2012

City of Milton meetings
Milton's public works committee will meet Nov. 29 at 8 a.m. in Conference Room B at Milton City Hall.
Milton's parks and recreation committee will meet Nov. 29 at 9 a.m.…

Pace incorporation not on horizon

The move to incorporate Pace as a city/town has subsided over the past few years, although at one time it was reverberating at a high pitch.
And currently there is nothing on the horizon that indi…

Jay prepares for first Cotton Festival

Although Thanksgiving is usually Jay’s main feature of November, there’s still something even more exciting than the Christmas Parade being offered before the end of the month this year. It’s the Fir…