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.

Tomorrow (Tuesday, Nov. 8) is election day. The polls will be open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m.

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.