The Milton and Bagdad Riverfront Master Plan, completed in 2015, presents a grand vision for the future of The City Where Good Living Flows, a vision of a vibrant waterfront entertainment district.

It imagines a walkable mixed-use community with shops, restaurants, parks, a boardwalk extending between the two communities, and public river access, all embracing the historic downtown of a 19th-century river town.

It’s almost impossible to understand it if you weren’t here then.

One April morning in 2010 the Gulf of Mexico exploded. Hundreds of millions of gallons of oil roared up out of an undersea volcano and smeared across 70,000 miles of ocean.

Following the 2020 Census, Florida could have secured:

• Extra yearly federal funding;
•  An additional congressional seat; and
•  Reliable data to guide statewide business and economic development, workforce infrastructure, social services, and decision-making for the years to come.

Well, they’re going to try. The Milton City Council is gambling $100,000 from reserves – taxpayers’ money – that it can stop the state from widening Caroline Street through the historic district.

The council voted 6-2 to advertise for bids on a study to determine alternatives to a Florida Department of Transportation plan to widen U.S. Highway 98 – Caroline Street – from two to four lanes between Stewart Street and Ward Basin Road.

Way to go, Santa Rosa County Commissioners.  You discussing abortion upset a PNJ letter writer.

Consider this:  Like many Christians, tired of God’s judgment on America, the SRC Commissioners abandoned moral cowardice because it’s better to obey God than man! 

Jeff Ates IV may be an early favorite to win Milton’s version of the Nobel Peace Prize.

OK, no such award exists, but, if his idea to move the planned wastewater treatment plant from its proposed location to property recently acquired from Santa Rosa County, the city should consider creating one.

Growing up, Ronald Reagan was this nanogenarian’s favorite movie star. His election as governor, then president was so exciting!

I’m glad he’s not alive to hear his son’s ad (reported in an area newspaper,) stating he’s, “not afraid to burn in Hell.” His father would be heartbroken.