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Prescribed burn announced by Eglin on Saturday

Eglin Air Force Base has announced one prescribed burn planned in tactical training areas G-20, G-21 and G22 on Saturday.The burn will be 3,000 acres in the western portion of the reservation, east of Range Road 253, north of Range Road 660 and south of Range Road 213.The smoke is expected to rise to 2,700 feet with transport winds predicted to be out of the east. Smoke impacts should be minimal in [...]
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EMS offers to take bedridden ‘Home for the Holidays’

The Okaloosa County Department of Public Safety’s Emergency Medical Services Division will offer free transportation (on a space available basis) to local residents who would otherwise be unable to come home for holiday celebrations.The “Home for the Holidays” program is designed to allow patients in skilled nursing and adult congregate living facilities to go home to family members for holiday dinner. Patients must be self-supporting while at the residence, and [...]
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‘Geek Lights’ dazzle again

Performances of the show, which is now in its 10th season, take place at the corner of Bluewater Boulevard and Antiqua Way. Shows begin every 30 minutes starting at 6 p.m., with the last show starting at 9:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
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Crown Royal holiday effort for troops gets local boost

DESTIN — A regular customer at the Walmart Liquor store is spreading a different kind of warmth this holiday season than she had planned.The woman, whom store personnel know only by sight — and maybe a first name, "Teresa," an employee said  — recently brought more than 400 of the iconic cloth bags that hold Crown Royal whiskey into the store and dropped them into a Crown Royal Bags for the Troops collection barrel.The annual initiative by [...]
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