The Green Thumb Garden Club will meet at 9:45 AM on November 14th at the Linkside Bayside Ballroom in Sandestin.  The meeting will be about Landscape Design with Winter Blooming Plants, Trees and Shrubs.  Sheila Dunning, Okaloosa County Commercial Horticulture Agent will present how to choose plants and get them into the ground correctly to […]

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Celebrate the season of giving by joining the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Emerald Coast for a holiday-themed concert on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 6 p.m. on the lawn of the South Walton Club. Local musicians, including Chris Alvarado, Jacob Mohr, Scott Rockwood and Christina Christian, will take the stage and sing the season’s […]

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CO M M U N I T Y ST R O N G AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE By Esther Lynn Hemphill “Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT When disaster hits, there’s an immediate and innate response for us to jump […]

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Tribute Weekend The Village of Baytowne Wharf Presents Tribute Weekend. Rock out the weekend and enjoy live music. Grab your blankets and lawn chairs and meet us on the Baytowne events plaza lawn for a jam-packed weekend of incredible music and talent Saturday, November 10th ~ 4-6pm 52nd Street and Captain Fantastic – It’s “Still […]

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Breakfast with a Ranger on Veterans Day Join Topsail Hill Preserve State Park in celebrating Veterans Day on November 10, 2018 at 9:00a.m. with a free Breakfast with a Ranger. Along with the regular park related Q&A, the park will be sharing a teaser of its new program, “WWII, the Florida Panhandle and the Florida State […]

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In the wake of Hurricane Michael, Walton County has been inundated with volunteer requests from Walton County residents wanting to help their neighbors, friends and families impacted by Hurricane Michael. In order to provide an opportunity for those who would like to volunteer, the county has created a registration link: www.surveymonkey.com/r/HurricaneVolunteers  WCEM is looking for […]

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The Northwest Florida Environmental Stewards have been selected and awarded best program of the year out of 38 Florida AmeriCorps teams. This is the second time the program has been recognized. An organization under the Northwest Florida State College Foundation, the AmeriCorps team works with the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance to build living shorelines and educate […]

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by Emily Rose Proctor, SoWal Community Chaplain In the days after Hurricane Michael, South Walton jumped into action, providing relief to storm survivors in Bay and Gulf counties.  Churches, nonprofits and businesses became donation collection and distribution sites and mobilized teams of people to cut trees, deliver meals, and tarp roofs in affected areas.  But […]

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