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Feb 16, 2024

Bringing Jorgenson back will be a mistake

With all due respect to Jorgenson, Collins identified in five months critical challenges facing the city that Jorgenson – in five years as city manager – at best didn’t recognize, at least didn’t report, and at worst helped create.

Feb 8, 2024

A giant U.S. flag would help unify Santa Rosa County

Should the Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners invest in buying and flying the largest U.S. flag in Florida? Absolutely.

Feb 1, 2024

County must ensure sewer service for rapidly growing East Milton

If the City of Milton decides it can’t build its new wastewater treatment plant, Santa Rosa County will have to step in to provide services for the rapidly growing East Milton area.

Jan 25, 2024

Good citizenship requires access to truthful information

“Truth is our currency.” That is the first, most basic and foundational core value prescribed by our parent company, Sandpaper Publishing. We explain it this way: “We must know the truth to make good decisions. The same with our community – they must know the truth. Admit mistakes quickly so we can deal with them.”

Jan 18, 2024

Human trafficking is on the rise in America

Since 2010, the U.S. President has designated January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month.

Jan 10, 2024

From the Mayor of Milton, Heather Lindsay

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. 

Jan 2, 2024

Water conservation costs you more

We have been taught that clean water, fresh water is a valuable and limited resource. We use it in our everyday lives to drink, shower, brush our teeth, cook, clean, do laundry, run the dishwasher, wash the cars – and it all adds up. Our lifestyles can produce a lot of water waste, and the world is not producing new water sources. What we have is what we have.

Dec 21, 2023

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

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.

Dec 14, 2023

Parker’s plan will streamline meetings without reducing public input

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.”

Dec 6, 2023

Always remember Pearl Harbor

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.”
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