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Santa Rosa County commissioners are looking to use federal money to address chronic flooding.

Santa Rosa Commissioners on Tuesday opposed increasing the tax on cell phone users. Cellphone users in Santa Rosa County won’t see an increase in the tax on their texts and talking. Commissioners on Tuesday night opposed an increase in the Communications Services Tax that would have increased the tax $1.80 per year. The move followed a 5 p.m. public hearing in the commission meeting room at the county administrative complex in Milton, off U.S. 90. District 2 Commissioner Bob Cole said the proposed ordinance change would increase the tax from 1.58 percent to 1.84 percent. The increase would...

Santa Rosa officials updated on oil-spill money

A recap of decisions from Tuesday's Santa Rosa County Commission meeting.

View Comments Homebuilder Edwin Henry threw both Santa Rosa County and the city of Milton for a loop Tuesday when he made a surprise last-minute offer to donate hundreds of acres of his own land for the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant in Milton.  But while County Commissioners were almost giddy at the idea of Henry's offer — "I think this is an amazing development," said District 1 Commissioner Sam Parker — Milton City Manager Randy Jorgenson wasn't immediately sold on the idea. "Where did that come from?" Jorgenson told the News Journal after the meeting. "We've been a...