TOUR OF HOMES AND SEASIDE YARD SALE Busy weekend in south Walton. _____ DFS CITY COUNCIL MEETS FEB. 14 Talks community redevelopment. _____ BCC APPROVES 723 WHISKEY BRAVO PROJECT Works out traffic, land use disputes. _____ FREEPORT CITY COUNCIL FEB. 8 MEETING Hears grant updates. _____ BEACH DRIVING PERMITS TO EXPAND Lottery for additional 150 [...]

By DOTTY NIST A new restaurant proposal for the former Wheelhouse Restaurant property in Seagrove, called 723 Whiskey Bravo, has received approval from the Walton County Board of County Commissioners (BCC).

By ALICIA LEONARD The DeFuniak Springs City Council held their regularly scheduled session on Feb. 14. Among items on the agenda were multiple request for fee waivers for use of facilities and equipment from non-profits, a discussion on downtown redevelopment, and community redevelopment area findings of necessity and plan with negotiation committee recommendations.

By BEN GRAFTON For the first order of business at the Freeport City Council meeting of Feb. 8, City Planner Latilda Henninger presented the second readings of proposed ordinances to adopt a Small Scale Amendment to the Comprehensive Plan and a zoning change for a 3.1 acre parcel off of Bay Loop Road owned by [...]

By JEFFREY POWELL Later this summer in Athens, Greece more than 7,500 athletes from 185 countries around the world will converge on the most historic site in the history of Olympic sport for the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games. This gathering will be the largest sporting event of the year. The games are a [...]

By DOTTY NIST As envisioned, the Walton County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) has voted to expand permitting in the county’s beach driving program–by what is considered a number of additional permits in keeping with maintaining safety on the short stretches of beachfront where driving is allowed.

By PATRICK CASEY The Ponce de Leon girls basketball team used a hot start to hold off county rival Holmes County in an opening round Class 2A playoff game on Thursday night by a 53-28 count.

By REID TUCKER There’s no other way to put it: Aucilla Christian simply had no counter for the combined onslaught of Paxton’s Alyssa Dupree and Krysten Cuchens.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, IN AND FOR WALTON COUNTY CASE NO. 09CA000895 HANCOCK BANK, successor in interest to, PEOPLES FIRST COMMUNITY BANK, Plaintiff, vs. EMMERT INVESTMENTS, LC, DUNNIE EMMERT, A/K/A JAMES E. EMMERT, BETTY S. EMMERT Defendants. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE is hereby given pursuant to a [...]