BCC TO INTERVIEW NINE CANDIDATES FOR TDC DIRECTOR Director of county DOC to assist in interim oversight. _____ BCC TO ENLIST HELP IN FINDING NEW ADMINISTRATOR Investigation into Halfhill reportedly proceeding. _____ APRIL 9 TDC MEETING Approves strategic plan. _____ WALTON COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION APRIL 11 MEETING Idyll Hound Beer applies to build brewery. _____ [...]

By DOTTY NIST A strategic plan document compiled by South Walton Tourist Development (TDC) advertising agency Zehnder Communications was presented at the tourism council’s April 9 meeting at the Walton County District 5 office. TDC Executive Director Dawn Moliterno noted that the agency had attempted to put the direction of the council provided during its [...]

By DOTTY NIST County commissioners have agreed to interview nine candidates for the vacant South Walton Tourist Development Council (TDC) executive director position, have set a salary range for the position, and have provided for temporary oversight of the TDC. The decisions took place at the April 9 Walton County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) [...]

By BEN GRAFTON At the Freeport City Council meeting of April 9, City Planner Latilda Hughes presented the second reading of a proposed ordinance to revise the Industrial Use section of the City’s Land Development Code. The Council adopted the ordinance. Henninger introduced request to abandon the development plan for a 34 acre portion of [...]

By DOTTY NIST Assistant County Administrator Gerry Demers will again be heading up Walton County Administration for at least a number of months, as county commissioners look to the Florida Association of Counties (FAC) to recommend candidates for the vacant county administrator position. These were decisions made by the Walton County Board of County Commissioners [...]

By BEN GRAFTON At the Freeport City Council meeting of April 9, City Planner Latilda Hughes presented the second reading of a proposed ordinance to revise the Industrial Use section of the City’s Land Development Code. The Council adopted the ordinance. Henninger introduced request to abandon the development plan for a 34 acre portion of [...]

    DFS CITY COUNCIL APRIL 8 MEETING Retiring mayor receives plaque, ovation. _____   WALTON COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD APRIL 2 MEETING Odom donates land for future Hammock Bay school. _____   SARA COMANDER HOLDS TOWN HALL MEETING APRIL 8 RESTORE Act, 30A, Spring Break topics of discussion. _____   SOUTH WALTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL FORUM [...]

By REID TUCKER The DeFuniak Springs City Council chambers were nearly filled to capacity as Mayor Harold Carpenter presided over his last full meeting before installing the new mayor in two weeks’ time. Carpenter expressed his appreciation for his wife, Hilda, and the members of the Council and city staff at the April 8 meeting, [...]

by BEN GRAFTON Commissioner Sara Comander opened the Town Hall meeting of April 8 before a small audience of  25 – 30 people in the meeting room of Walton County’s Coastal Branch Library with comments about the Walton County Strategic Plan. Copies of excerpts of  the plan’s vision and objectives were available to the attendees [...]

By ALICIA LEONARD The April 2 regular meeting of the Walton County School Board (WCSB) opened with the board approving the agenda before them unanimously after moving some items dealing with school improvement/deregulation plans and construction management contacts in the consent agenda to the action agenda portion of the meeting upon request by board member [...]