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Thirty women met to create the Milton Garden Club at 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 7, 1948; it was incorporated May 28 and by April 1949 it had joined the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, Deep South Region Garden Clubs and District 1 of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs.

The Milton City Council voted 5-3 Tuesday, Aug. 8, to terminate City Clerk Dawn Molinero on the recommendation of City Attorney Alex Andrade.

Legendary basketball coach John Wooden said, “A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.”

Santa Rosa County Commissioner Kerry Smith, a real estate agent, said last week the county can’t continue depending on property taxes to top off its general fund.

Milton City Attorney Alex Andrade is expected to recommend firing City Clerk Dawn Molinero at Tuesday’s regular meeting of the city council.

Public hearings to consider Jubilee Development Group LLC’s rezoning application have been canceled at the owner’s request, Santa Rosa County Planning Director Shawn Ward announced Friday, July 28.

On July 1, many new laws went into effect in Florida. One of the more talked about laws allows Floridians to carry concealed firearms without a government issued permit. Before the law went into effect, people could be charged with a felony if found to be carrying a weapon without a permit.

The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners at a meeting last week honored five middle and high school winners of the Central Santa Rosa County Republican Club’s 2023 Constitutional Essay Contest.

Milton Mayor Heather Lindsay cast the deciding vote against firing City Clerk Dawn Molinero after a two-hour special meeting Monday.

Soon the sounds of shuffling paper, bells, children walking and the scratching of pens and pencils against paper will fill Santa Rosa District Schools’ newest addition, Wallace Lake K-8.

On Friday, July 28, Santa Rosa District Schools cut the ribbon and opened the doors of Wallace Lake K-8 to the public.