Town of Jay Fireworks

The Town of Jay will be celebrating Independence Day with fireworks on July 3rd at Bray Hendricks Park.

The Town of Jay will be celebrating Independence Day with fireworks on July 3rd at Bray Hendricks Park.

Tuesday-To finish a school year like no other, the JHS Class of 2020 got to have a graduation like no other. Traditionally, graduation has been in the gymnasium at JHS. However, due to Coronavirus guidelines, this year’s graduation was held at Merle V. North. Congrats graduates and good luck!

Jay-On Thursday, the City of Jay passed out 10,000 pounds of food to people in the area. Residents from Santa Rosa and Escambia counties received free food at Bray Hendricks Park in Jay. City Manager of Jay, Eric Seib, setup the event. Coaches from JHS also helped as well as a few students. “The Jay […]

The Woodlawn Beach pier replacement is substantially complete. Minor maintenance activities may be ongoing for a short period but the boat ramp is fully open. The project, which began Apr.6, was completed by Dale’s Marine Construction and included demolition and removal of the existing pier and reconstruction of the pier with catwalks and terminal platform […]
The Santa Rosa Education Foundation invited every school in the Santa Rosa School District to select one teacher as their 2020 Santa Rosa Rookie of the Year. All full-time teachers in their third year or less of teaching were eligible for this award. This included total teaching experience, not just in Santa Rosa public schools. […]
April 13, 2020 – Today is National Lineman Appreciation Day and a time to honor all the brave men and women who work hard to keep power flowing to our communities. Line crews work around the clock, sometimes in difficult and dangerous conditions, to keep the lights on. Whether they’re restoring power after a major […]

Monday-So we are two plus weeks into a “new normal” with the Coronavirus that has put the country at a stand still. While President Trump has issued that we follow the social distancing guidelines that were put into place a couple of weeks ago continue until April 30. The pandemic has crippled many parts of […]

Bring in air potato bulbils, which resemble potatoes hanging on the air potato vine, to UF/IFAS Extension Santa Rosa County Office, 6263 Dogwood Drive in Milton, 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. starting now through March 31. Air potato is a non-native invasive vine that can smother landscapes and natural areas in a similar way as […]

Catch the last showing on Saturday night at the historic JHS Auditorium.

Santa Rosa County will resume its recycling program the first week of February and to help ensure it is successful, county staff will be taking extra steps to ensure collected recyclables are not contaminated with non-recyclable garbage. Due to the high volume of contaminants collected when the county previously participated in recycling, staff will visually […]