Residents were happy to talk trash with Santa Rosa County officials earlier this month, but now they wonder if those officials were listening.
"I'm convinced...that the county paid lip service to listening to us by having meetings in the South End," said Don Richards, United Peninsula Association president, at UPA's meeting Feb. 17. "They went back up [to Milton, the county seat] and did exactly what they wanted to do."

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