Community Archive

For people with special needs, sports and recreational opportunities are few and far between.

Sure there is the Special Olympics, but the vast majority of those with special needs will never get to participate in them. That’s where one local organization comes in.

The Pensacola Navy League recently announced that a special visitor would be coming to the Emerald Coast during the first weekend in June.

America’s Tall Ship, the USCGC Barque Eagle will moor downtown Pensacola at Plaza De Luna from Thursday, June 2 to Sunday, June 5.

Ariana Rice moved from Georgia to Florida when she was younger, and because she was now in a military area, her mindset on what the future held for her soon changed.

Rice joined the Navarre Navy Junior ROTC program in high school and that propelled her in a direction she never imagined her life would go.

A local animal outreach, A HOPE, works toward serving the animals in Santa Rosa County.

The focus of A HOPE, which stands for Animal Health Outreach Prevention Education, is to spay, neuter and vaccinate county animals at an affordable rate, whether that be for stray community cats or beloved family dogs.

The Northwest Florida region has a rich colonial history with the Spanish, French, and British all having occupied parts of the area before the United States even began.

There has been plenty studied and written about the colonial period of this region and a new book seeks to pull all that research together and give proper context to the Spanish era, specifically from 1698 to 1763.

Three times a year, Milton hosts a gun show.

Rather, Billy Rogers hosts a gun show at the Santa Rosa County Auditorium sponsored by his business, Rogers Dozer Service. The next of which will be June 4 and 5.