The Santa Rosa County Commission will meet at 5 p.m. Monday at the Commissioners Conference Room, 6495 Caroline St., Milton.

It’s not too late for residents to share input about Milton wastewater disposal plans, a Florida Department of Environmental Protection spokesperson said last week. The City of Milton has asked FDEP to allow the city to spray up to 1.256 million gallons of treated wastewater per day on rapid-infiltration basins and a spray field on a 100-acre property next to the proposed site of a new wastewater treatment plant. FDEP issued a notice of the city’s permit application that was published on the city’s website beginning Oct. 2. While answering a resident’s question about how long the public could submit comments to the department, a 30-day time frame was mentioned, which would have ended Nov. 1.

Residents attending the Santa Rosa County Commission’s special rezoning meeting last week, or watching the meeting online, heard what sounded like Commission Chairman Bob Cole accusing a developer of paying residents not to object to a zoning request.

Santa Rosa County’s elections are secure. That was Colten Wright’s message last week to residents worried that “nefarious actors” manipulated 2020 election results and may try to do so again this year.

The deadline to submit qualifications to manage the City of Milton’s almost $70-million wastewater reclamation project passed last month without response.

“This is a big project; a huge project,” Interim Public Information Officer Jay Conrad said Friday. “Our expectation has been that anyone with the qualifications to do this job already is employed; we knew it might take some time to attract the kind of expertise we need for a project of this magnitude.”

Milton, Fla. – The Santa Rosa County Department of Health has announced that Abbott has issued a press release voluntarily recalling certain lots of 2 fluid ounce/59 milliliter bottles of Ready-to-Feed (RTF) liquid formula products. For a list of products and lot numbers included in the recall, visit https://www.similacrecall.com/us/en/2-fl-oz-recall-information.html or call 1-800-986-8540. According to Abbott, […]

The Santa Rosa County Commission is expected to name the four-lane highway being built through the Pea Ridge community between U.S. Highway 90 and Hamilton Bridge Road at its regular meeting Thursday.

The early favorite? Pea Ridge Connector.

A house fire in the 8700 block of Chumuckla Highway claimed a woman’s life Monday. Dispatchers received a report of a house fire at 1:46 p.m., according to Santa Rosa County Public Information Officer Sarah Whitfield. An Allentown Volunteer Fire Department truck found the home engulfed in flame when it arrived at the scene at […]

In his final act as a member of the Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organization’s board of directors, Bob Cole asked the TPO to consider his hometown’s plan to save its downtown.