FORT WALTON BEACH — While the 2018 Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival in June will include a massive Mardi Gras-style parade, live music, fireworks and fancy costumes, it won’t feature a treasure chest hunt on the beach, a water-ski show or an exploding pirate fort.Simply put, times have changed.Just ask Tom and Peggy Rice, who own The Magnolia Grill on Brooks Street. They remember attending [...]

The Krystal Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the fast-food restaurant, awarded a $750 grant to St. Mary School science teacher Laura McNeill, who intends to purchase a high-intensity digital light microscope to teach students about cells and cell structures.In other St. Mary science news, five students placed at the Florida Science and Engineering Fair: Katie Casey, second, microbiology; Maura Liles, second, physics; Ashleigh Perry and Alysha Miner, fifth, mathematics; and Rachel [...]