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The feud between Milton City Manager Randy Jorgenson and Milton Concerned Citizens escalated at a city council meeting last week, leading Mayor Pro Tem Casey Powell to adjourn the meeting early.

Members of the political action committee, angered by Jorgenson’s Oct. 11 attack on MCC’s opposition to a proposed wastewater treatment plant site, publicly shared evidence of Jorgenson’s criminal history, claimed that he had committed several violations of the city’s code of conduct, and asked him to resign.

Each year for the past 20 plus years, the Navarre Garden Club has offered to the community a Thanksgiving Centerpiece Workshop.

Attendees will learn a bit about basic floral design and take home a beautiful centerpiece that they have created, for their Thanksgiving table. Each year the arrangement is different, and usually stays fresh for a week or more.

On Sat., Oct. 22, Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge held a Halloween event called Batty Fang-tastic Halloween at their facilities on Cloptons Circle in Holley. The event drew large crowds with various activities from a cake walk to a haunted woods to a costume contest. Left to Right: Em Gann and Katie Schneider right dressed as characters from the Legend of Zelda video game franchise. Kinsley was dressed like […]

Milton, Fla. – The Santa Rosa County Department of Health has announced that Abbott has issued a press release voluntarily recalling certain lots of 2 fluid ounce/59 milliliter bottles of Ready-to-Feed (RTF) liquid formula products. For a list of products and lot numbers included in the recall, visit https://www.similacrecall.com/us/en/2-fl-oz-recall-information.html or call 1-800-986-8540. According to Abbott, […]

The Highway 98 closure, which was originally scheduled to take place on the night of Oct. 29 and the morning of Oct. 30 has been rescheduled due to potential bad weather.

The closure of Highway 98 to reinstall the Hurlburt Field pedestrian bridge will now take place on Sat., Nov. 5 and Sun., Nov. 6.

On Sun., Oct. 16, IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area held their annual meeting to announce the recipients of grants at the Hilton Gulf Front on Pensacola Beach.

IMPACT 100 is an organization of women who pool resources and funds together to donate to nonprofits in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. This was the 19th year they awarded grants to nonprofits.

A Navarre man will be spending the next 25 years behind bars and the rest of his life on sex offender probation after he was sentenced on Oct. 20. Michael Joseph Bouley, 66, was also designated as a sexual predator by Circuit Court Judge Darlene Dickey.

According to a press release from the Office of the State Attorney for the First Judicial Circuit of Florida, the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call regarding child molestation on Feb. 18, 2022.

One in eight women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime, according to breastcancer.org. One in 10 women in the U.S. are uninsured.

In 2020, Florida was among the states reporting the highest percentages of uninsured nonelderly women at 12%-22%, as stated by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

In his final act as a member of the Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization’s board of directors, Bob Cole asked the TPO to consider his hometown’s plan to save its downtown.