Within the first half hour of the Santa Rosa County Board of Commissioners meeting, Chairman Kerry Smith made clear he wanted to remove a member of the zoning board.
The member in question is Commissioner Ray Eddington’s District 4 representative, Gene Sullivan. Smith accused Sullivan of getting into a verbal altercation with a zoning applicant following the special zoning meeting of May 22.
Martin Luther King Middle School teacher Johnathan Burchett was arrested May 15 and charged with 24 counts of possession of child sexual abuse material. A press conference was held the following day at Milton City Hall.
Milton’s first female police chief was sworn in to her duty at Milton City Hall on May 13. Milton Police Department, Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office, and members of the public attended to show their support.
Pace Pharmacy pharmacists Stephen Allen Burklow and David Barron Winkles, and the pharmacy office manager Monique Burklow, were arrested on May 14. The three were charged with conspiring to traffic prescription drugs.
The Board of County Commissioners passed the extension of the Rural Protection Zone without objection. A workshop to discuss how to strengthen the boundary is expected to follow.
Edited Facebook videos cause an online uproar with Land Development Code Task Force members Dara Hartigan and Kelvin Enfinger in the midst.
More details to follow soon.
On May 1, the City of Milton held a ceremonial groundbreaking for a $10 million gas line replacement project, replacing 12 miles of aging natural gas pipeline.
