Category: county

MILTON — An Okaloosa County company wants to expand into Santa Rosa County with a $325,000 investment and plans to hire nine employees with an average annual wage twice the county average, $67,500.
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MILTON — The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners will vote Thursday on whether to include a 10 percent pay increase for the Santa Rosa Sheriff's Office in the Fiscal Year 2018 budget. She…

MILTON — The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners on Monday, without objection, moved to advertise for an ordinance change to allow Sunday sales of alcohol.
Michael Thomas, owner of Grov…

MILTON — Santa Rosa County Commission Chairman Rob Williamson and Milton Mayor Wesley Meiss want to ensure Santa Rosa County gets its fair share of BP oil spill funds through Triumph Gulf Coast.
Tr…

MILTON — The Veterans Memorial Foundation has a sculpture for honoring those who have supported service members with letters and care packages.
While the sculptor, Roxie Platt, donated her work, th…

MILTON — Santa Rosa County's 2015-2016 annual report includes the year’s code compliance violations.
Notable are 485 zoning violations, 410 more than the second-highest violation. Randy Jones, with…

MILTON — Pace High graduate and World Series winning Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell visited the Santa Rosa County Commission for Wednesday's meeting in his honor. 
Russell thanked the count…

THE ISSUE:  Santa Rosa County's population boom could reach a record 180,000 residents by 2020, according to the University of Florida's Bureau of Economic and Business Research. 

LOCAL IMPACT:  I…

MILTON — The Santa Rosa County Economic Development and Tourist Development offices work to bring business into the county through companies that provide jobs and generate tax dollars and tourists wh…

MILTON — Here, we catch up with newly sworn in Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson.
Why do you want to add resource officers to middle and elementary schools?
I used to be a resource officer at…