Photos of the Week

TOURS OF HOMES Remarkable residences in Freeport and DeFuniak Springs. _____ HABITAT CONSERVATION WORKSHOP Talks seawalls, funding. _____ COMMUNITY WALTON LOOKS BACK Elects new officers, makes 2011 plans. _____ WALTON REPUBLICAN WOMEN HELP SANTA Gather Christmas boxes for overseas troops. _____ RURAL RELIEF PANTRY NEEDS HELP Food requests double in November. _____ CHANGES PROPOSED TO [...]

By DOTTY NIST To fund Walton County’s proposed Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP), county staff are now proposing a one-time fee of $100 per linear foot of seawall. The fee would be paid by property owners who constructed coastal armoring permitted on a temporary basis by the county in the emergency period following 2005 Hurricane Dennis.

By LEAH STRATMANN For the poor and unemployed, the economic hits just keep coming, sending more and more people to the Rural Relief Food Pantry in Bruce. Pantry manager Chuck Tucker said the pantry served 92 families on Nov. 20, roughly twice as many as the previous day in which the pantry was open. In [...]

By DOTTY NIST County commissioners will soon be considering making a number of changes to Walton County’s beach driving ordinance.

By REID TUCKER South Walton’s boys’ and girls’ soccer teams soared over their counterparts from Bozeman, handily sweeping the Bucks 8-0 and 5-1, respectively.

By REID TUCKER An explosive second quarter gave Walton the leverage it needed to overcome South Walton’s home-court advantage to take the win 68-59.

IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR WALTON COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE No.: 2010-CA-001379 SUPERIOR BANK, Plaintiff, v. WILLIAM D. LEE, a/k/a W. DEL LEE, Defendant. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of foreclosure dated November 30, 2010, and entered in Civil Action No. 2010-CA-001379 of the Circuit Court [...]