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Springtime face-lift

FORT WALTON BEACH — Members of the Rotary Club of Fort Walton Beach planted dozens of crape myrtle trees Saturday at the city's Recreation Center on Jet Drive.The club partnered with the Crestview Rotary Club and the Yellow River Soil and Water Conservation District to receive the saplings that were planted.The project was in support of Rotary International President Ian Riseley’s request that one tree be planted this year for each of Rotary's roughly 1. [...]
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Niceville mom desperate for bone marrow donor

NICEVILLE — A 35-year-old mother of four is fighting for her life in a Pensacola hospital, several months after being diagnosed with leukemia.Julie Williams was diagnosed in November after she went to the doctor with what she thought was a sore throat and the blood work came back with the alarming results. Chemotherapy worked initially, but now she needs a bone marrow transplant, according to her best friend Brigette Mathew of Navarre."She's having a hard time [...]
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Sunshine State: Florida seeks all-year daylight saving time

PLANTATION — Most of the nation springs forward on Sunday, moving clocks up one hour to observe daylight saving time. If Sunshine State legislators get their way, Floridians won't be falling back in the future.By overwhelming bipartisan majorities, the normally fractious Senate and House agreed this week to make Florida the first in the nation to adopt year-round daylight saving time statewide. It would mean later sunrises and sunsets from November to March, peak tourist [...]
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