Milton City Manager Randy Jorgenson is expected to ask the city council to allow him to find a wastewater treatment plant project manager after the city’s request for proposals (RFP) received no response.
About 100 Milton-area residents attended a workshop Tuesday at the Santa Rosa County Auditorium to learn about possible threats to the Blackwater River from the city’s proposed new wastewater treatment facility.
The Santa Rosa County School Board is scheduled to discuss the new Wallace Lake K-8 School’s attendance zone at a workshop scheduled at 8 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, at 5086 Canal Street in Milton.
Milton’s Concerned Citizens and Save the Blackwater River! are conducting a public workshop to discuss the proposed location of the city’s new wastewater treatment plant.
The public is welcome to attend the meeting, scheduled from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at the Santa Rosa County Auditorium, 4530 Spikes Way, Milton.
Political newcomer Marilyn Farrell still holds the slimmest of possible leads – one vote – over former mayor Wes Meiss in the race for Ward 2, Seat 1 on the Milton City Council.
The Florida Department of Health, after learning that Santa Rosa County is considering what to do with the long-vacant Whittle Building, notified staff earlier this month that a plume of toxic chemicals has collected beneath the building on U.S. Highway 90 in downtown Milton.
Almost 2,000 residents voted for one of four possible names for the new K-8 school being constructed at the intersection of Wallace Lake Road and Chumuckla Highway. Wallace Lake was the overwhelming winner, with 1,301 total votes.
Residents worried about the proposed location of Milton’s new wastewater treatment plant may have a friend in high places.
Pam Mitchell of Milton Concerned Citizens, a political action committee leading opposition to the proposed site, said she and other members of the group were encouraged by a meeting they had with U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz at an event the last weekend in October.
Santa Rosa County officials buried a time capsule Wednesday to help commemorate the opening of its new courthouse on Avalon Boulevard. A plaque marking the capsule’s resting place will instruct future county officials to open the capsule 50 years after its burial, on Nov. 9, 2072.
