When Rose Boyd climbs into the family car, she asks if she can bring a book with her. When she’s home, she straps on her skates and glides around the house with a Kindle in her hand. For her, reading isn’t a habit, it’s a lifestyle.
The Milton City Council took its first steps on April 23 toward overhauling how the city charges for natural gas services, with staff proposing higher installation fees, a new monthly minimum charge, and a phased rate increase. All aimed at putting the city’s gas utility on sustainable financial footing.
For 50 years, the T-28 Trojan aircraft has stood at the corner of Stewart Street and Park Avenue outside Milton High School, a fixture of the city’s landscape since the nation’s bicentennial in 1976. Whether it will remain there is now an open question.
Money is already flowing into Santa Rosa County’s 2026 election races, with candidates tapping local businesses, private individuals, and their own wallets to fund campaigns for races that will be decided this August.
A new outdoor and firearms retailer has opened in Milton, taking over a location that had been vacant after its previous owner closed. The new owner said the businesses are not connected.
The Milton City Council heard a proposal April 23 that would require owners of vacant and abandoned properties to register with the city and pay escalating annual fees.
After hours of pointed arguments, emotional appeals and tense deliberation, the Santa Rosa County School Board voted April 22 to give district teachers a fully recurring 2% salary increase, ending months of failed negotiations and leaving union leaders relieved.
As Santa Rosa County Commissioners moved to advance ballot language for the renewal of the county’s half-cent local option sales tax on April 21, a familiar voice from the public urged the board once again to strip the measure down to a single purpose: fixing roads.
The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners on April 21 paid tribute to Elizabeth Baskerville Major, a mathematician, certified Florida Master Naturalist and longtime community advocate who died last year at age 87, by presenting a posthumous certificate of recognition to honor her decades of environmental and civil service.
