Santa Rosa County, City of Miton, News Archive

Residents spent the first four hours of Thursday morning’s Santa Rosa County Commission meeting speaking out against a conceptual route that would extend the Pea Ridge Connector through farmland to connect to Berryhill Road.

In response to an ethics finding against Milton City councilman Mike Cusack, the council voted to remove him from his role on the city’s finance committee. The vote was four in favor, with Farrow opposing and Cusack abstaining. Earlier this month, the Florida Commission on Ethics found that Cusack had violated state law by using […]

In what officials are calling a significant milestone, the City of Milton has been issued a permit for a water reclamation facility.

As soon as Milton City Councilman Jeff Snow learned that City Manager Scott Collins had submitted a letter of resignation, he quickly recommended a short-term fix: Appoint retired former City Manager Randy Jorgenson to fill the gap until the council can find a suitable replacement. Unfortunately, Snow’s knee-jerk reaction was the wrong move in the wrong direction at the wrong time for the wrong person.

A 48-year-old Milton man is dead and another seriously injured after a traffic crash in the area of State Road 89 and County Road 182 in Milton, Saturday morning around 9 a.m.

Darryl and Crystal Belanger are desperately searching for their missing son, Cameron, age 25, since he disappeared on July 1. Darryl told the Press Gazette Wednesday that Cameron has always been in constant contact with them, and it is unlike him not to call or come home. Residents of Fountain, Florida, the Belangers lived in […]

UPDATE AS OF JUNE 12: The Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office public information officer, Jillian Durkin, confirmed this morning that the victims were poisoned by a narcotic and one suspect has been interviewed. More to come as details are released.

It’s official: The Pea Ridge Connector legally will be known as…Pea Ridge Connector Road.

“Everybody I know calls it the Pea Ridge Connector,” Commissioner Sam Parker, whose district includes Pea Ridge, said at the commission’s Oct. 24 committee meeting.

The Florida Department of Transportation expects eventually to buy and tear down the Whittle Building to make room to expand U.S. Highway 90 through Milton, Santa Rosa County Commissioner Dave Piech reaffirmed Monday. In the meantime, the county is preparing to lease the vacant, dilapidated former automobile dealership and records warehouse.