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January 18, 2024
Often, growth comes with pain. The dull ache of “growing pains” in our legs kept many of us awake many nights as children.
January 10, 2024
EDITOR’S NOTE: State Rep. Dr. Joel Rudman filed a draft version of HB 1485, which would create the North Santa Rosa County Utilities Authority on Friday. He said edits to the bill already have been filed and will appear in the version of the bill considered in committee. 
January 2, 2024
The Santa Rosa County Legislative Delegation met Oct 24 where Sen. Doug Broxson’s proposed bill was briefly discussed. The only existing water system which attended the meeting was the City of Milton. This was the first time residents had even heard about it.
December 21, 2023
VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except (what) they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
December 14, 2023
Santa Rosa County is fortunate to have a committed group of citizen advocates, small but vocal, who monitor local government to protect the interests of “We the People.”
December 6, 2023
This newspaper is dated Dec. 7, 2023, the 82nd anniversary of the devastating surprise attack by the Japanese against the U.S. Navy’s facilities at Pearl Harbor, Hawai’i. Most Americans know today is Pearl Harbor Day, that the attack precipitated the United States’ entry into World War II and that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in condemning Japan’s aggression, called Dec. 7, 1941, “a date that shall live in infamy.”
November 27, 2023
Scott Collins got our attention Nov. 16 when he said at a Milton City Council work session that the city’s government needed a “total operational rebuild.”
November 22, 2023
We at Sandpaper Publishing have much to be thankful for, beginning with our members and readers. You fuel the passion we have for publishing three newspapers each week for three communities. We work hard to report and write the stories the matter most to you. We are your voice and are privileged to be in that role. Thank you for choosing us as your news and information source. We hope you stay tuned because we have so much more work to do for you.
November 14, 2023
It was a statement we heard at a national business conference and that wasn’t the only remark we heard about our industry. “Journalists go to journalism school to learn how to ask stupid questions.” This particular speaker had been the subject of “gotcha” journalism in the past. Every time an employee left his company it made the front page of the local newspaper. They referred to him as a cult leader and worse.
November 6, 2023
Florida Sen. Doug Broxson’s proposal for a North Santa Rosa County Utilities Authority might be the best hope for the future of Milton’s controversial wastewater treatment plant.

Almost 20 years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Florida Department of Environmental Protection ordered the city to stop discharging treated wastewater – called effluent – into the Blackwater River by the end of 2025.

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