By ASHLEY AMASON Concerned residents crowded the Council room and hallways at the DeFuniak Springs City Council July 11 regarding a rezoning request from Clary-Glenn Funeral Home. The request would rezone the property now located in an R-1 single family residential area to a C-1 commercial district, and upon special approval from the Council allow [...]

By REID TUCKER By the time this story appears in print, Zach Gershkoff will have begun the first of his 27 months in South Africa as a math teacher with the Peace Corps.

By PATRICK CASEY Five different age divisions traveled to the Forgotten Coast this past weekend as Dixie Youth softball took center stage as the 2011 Florida state tournament got underway on July 8 just east of Carrabelle.

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WALTON COUNTY CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE DAY Photos of area events and celebrations. _____ WCSB TALKS ATTENDANCE POLICY Opinions divided over changes. _____ BCC: TO RAISE OR NOT TO RAISE? Lower-level employees’ salary increase urged. _____ BCC TALKS DISBANDING BOARDS AND COMMITTEES CDLAB future uncertain. _____ WALTER OWENS’ AMAZING MACHINE Area inventor’s static-electricity powered generator. _____ CERTIFICATE [...]

By REID TUCKER After nearly two months of discussion, the Walton County Redistricting Committee voted to present proposed map 3D to the Board of County Commissioners and School Board for final approval.

By DOTTY NIST Community leader Bonnie McQuiston stood before county commission on June 28 to ask for a salary increase for lower-level county employees.

By DOTTY NIST To save on costs, the disbanding of a number of county boards, mainly inactive ones, has been approved. The Coastal Dune Lake Advisory Board (CDLAB) was also on the county commissioners’ list of boards to consider disbanding. However, there were objections to the elimination of the CDLAB as a county board, and [...]

By DOTTY NIST A July 12 public hearing has been set for Walton County’s proposed Certificate of Land Use Compliance Ordinance. This will be the second required public hearing for the current draft ordinance, and adoption may take place at that time.