PILOTS ASSISTING the Clean Water Network of Florida have taken numerous photographs over the past 15 months of the muddy flow of water into West Bay. A report to the DEP from KBR Construction last week confirms the installation of an 18-inch drainpipe on April 28 through the dike at Kelly Branch, which flows [...]

  THE GOVERNOR STONE is a wooden, shallow-drafted, two- masted schooner intended to move cargo throughout the bays and inland waters of the northern Gulf Coast region.  Built in 1877, the vessel is named after the first post-Civil War Governor of Mississippi, John Marshall Stone. There is now an effort to have the Stone moored [...]

  A CIRCLE OF PRAYER rings Lake DeFuniak, one of many National Day of Prayer observances seen around the area on May 7. A smaller gathering also took place in Freeport. (Photo by Ashley Amason).

  JUDGE KELVIN WELLS (R) and Judge Howard LaPorte presented Dorothy Kinkey with the Liberty Bell Award May 8 at the Emerald Coast Conference Center, on Law Day 2009, to recognize her 25 years of service as a Guardian Ad Litem. Kinkey accepted the award, saying, “Thank you so much…the children are worth it.”

  WMS STUDENTS receive letter of congratulations from Congressman Jeff Miller for their selections as WMS Student of the Week and/or Kiwanis Student of the Month. Here the students pose with Walton Middle School Principal Tripp Hope and Assistant Principal Vivian Powell.