Volunteers are needed to help organize and pack food boxes during Caring & Sharing’s Thanksgiving distribution preparation weekend on Friday, Nov. 19 from 4 to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 20 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
In a small room at Northwest Florida State College, eight newly trained veterans and their canine partners graduated from training Friday. These new Healing Paws for Warrior teams went through eight weeks of training and passed tests indicating that they were ready to work together.
Red, white and blue beads, candy and even pocket-sized copies of the Constitution were handed out to spectators seated in lawn chairs at the Milton Veterans Day Parade Nov. 11.
Sheena Barron has been recognized as the 2021-2022 “Teacher of the Year” for Oriole Beach Elementary School in Gulf Breeze. Barron is in her first year of being a Reading Intervention Specialist at the school, but the new role has not stopped her from being a high achiever.
Gulf Breeze Zoo is excited to announce a new species to its grounds with the recent arrival of a sibling pair of maned wolves named Stella and Cieza. As representatives of their declining South American canine species, Stella and Cieza will play vital roles in protecting the future of maned wolves from their new habitat in Northwest Florida.
When Andy Lee moved to Santa Rosa County in 2017, he was working as an insurance adjuster and commuting to Mobile, Alabama from his Chumuckla home. He had never noticed anything unusual about the old railroad bridge over Blackwater River that is parallel to U.S. Highway 90.
Students at Navarre High School joined together to celebrate Unity Day, an annual event occurring during National Bullying Prevention Month that promotes joining together to create healthier communities through kindness, acceptance of difference, and inclusion.
