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Find a fawn? If you care, leave it there
Find a fawn? If you care, leave it there White-tailed deer fawning can last many months in the Florida Panhandle. Sometimes people assume a fawn they find by itself has been abandoned and they try to “rescue” it. But instead of trying to rescue it, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) advises that […]
School News
Benjie West was named Santa Rosa County’s High School Principal of the year. Additionally, JHS Alumni and principal at Rhodes Elementary Kacie Reaves was named Elementary Principal of the year. Congratulations to both!
Louie Orrell Spears
Louie Orrell Spears 86 Milton Date of death-6/15/2023 Lewis Funeral Home Pace Chapel
Weekly Weather
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Terrell Wayne Godwin
Terrell Wayne Godwin, of Jay, Florida, passed away on June 13, 2023, at the age of eighty-seven. He was born in Chumuckla, Florida, on February 23, 1936, on the Old Spanish Trail. He grew up in Jay after his family moved from Alabama to farm. He graduated from Jay High School and married Peggy Scott […]
Gaetz in Jay
Mike Scott, owner of Scott’s Outdoors in Jay, hosted a Legislative Update with Matt Gaetz. Stands were brought in by the Town of Jay to host the 100 plus constituents that came to hear Representative Gaetz talk about National as well as local issues for around 30 minutes. After that, he took questions from those […]
Florida Power and Light Solar Power Ribbon Cutting
Wednesday-Florida Power and Light held a ribbon cutting event in East Milton to celebrate their first solar energy farm in Santa Rosa County. The “solar farm” produces enough energy for 55,000 homes in the county. The local 4-H group also received a check for $5,000 and it was announced that FPL was the new official […]
Former JHS Coach Passes
Obituary Gary Wayne Blakemore, 76, of Milton, Florida passed away peacefully on Friday, June 2, 2023. Gary was born on December 24, 1946, in Sherman, Texas, the son of Joseph Walton and Juanita Gary Blakemore. After graduation from Milton High School in 1965, he joined the US Army, and he became an Airborne paratrooper serving […]
Weekly Weather
Monday 88/66 Tuesday 84/64 Wednesday 88/64 (40 %) Thursday 91/68 (40 %) Friday 90/68 (30 %) Saturday 91/66 (50 %) Sunday 91/70 (30 %)
