The City of Milton officially kicks of the holiday season beginning at 5 p.m. Friday with a tree-lighting ceremony, lighted boat parade, fireworks and a visit from Santa Claus.
In a break from tradition, the Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners skipped the sitting vice chairman and named District 5 Commissioner Colten Wright chairman for the coming year.
The Milton Board of Adjustments will consider a variance request to allow smaller-than-required lot width and area for property on Applegate Street when it meets at 5:30 p.m. tonight at City Hall, 6738 Dixon St.
On Nov. 10, the Santa Rosa County Commission voted four to one in favor of purchasing land off Commerce Road, with the possibility of using the land for a new District One Medical Examiner’s Office building.
A former Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy will be seeing the inside of a federal prison cell for the next year.
Scott P. Haines, 50, of Milton, was sentenced to one year and a day in federal prison, following his previous guilty plea on the charge of making material false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation during an elder exploitation investigation. United States Attorney Jason R. Coody announced the sentence.
Moving students into a new K-8 building next year will affect several area schools: Avalon Middle, Berryhill Elementary, Central K-12, Chumuckla Elementary, Dixon Elementary, Dixon Primary, Pea Ridge Elementary and Sims Middle.
Tempers flared at the Milton City Council’s committee of the whole meeting last week when a feud over a $100,000 study turned into a shouting match over councilmembers’ right to make or second motions after losing reelection.
The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners held its reorganizational meeting this morning in Milton, seating two new board members and electing the chairman and vice chairman for the coming year. Judge Robert Hilliard, himself a former county commissioner, administered the oaths of office to new District 4 Commissioner Ray Eddington and District 2 Commissioner Kerry Smith. The new board elected District 5 Commissioner Colten Wright to be chairman and District 1 Commissioner Sam Parker to serve as vice chairman until November 2023.
The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested Monique Marie Garner, 32, of Milton, Saturday night in connection with the stabbing of a Pace woman earlier in the day.
