The 3rd Annual Wentz Brothers’ Festival of Fears Continues to Become Bigger & Better
The Wentz Brothers invite one and all to their third annual Festival of Fears haunted attraction in Fort Walton Beach. This year’s event promises to be bigger and better than the last, opening in a new...
By Jené McCracken
Professor McCracken was a nationally known educator whose specialty was education management and organization. He was half of a U. S. Bureau of Education team visiting black colleges to assess results of a survey. While in the Rust College President’s office, they heard the strains of a...
By Barbara Palmgren
Some people have a vision of success that turns their dream into a legend for the ages. Did Peter Bos envision that his dream of a community built with one of the finest golf courses in the country would become just that…legendary? His company, Legendary, Inc., began...
Welcome to a brand-new year in the Okaloosa County School District! I cannot begin my thoughts and hopes for this year without thanking our students, parents and staff for an outstanding 2022-2023 school year. In a year that brought new, more rigorous statewide assessments in English Language Arts (ELA) and...
Through the support of a BP oil spill-related grant issued by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the City of Niceville initiated the Boggy Bayou Headwaters Restoration project to address water quality concerns and habitat conditions near the Turkey Creek outfall. The project is permitted through the Florida Department...
By Carolyn Newcomer Ketchel, Okaloosa County Commissioner, District 2
Many of us patriotic individuals refer to the military aircraft that fly over our area daily as “The Sound of Freedom.” However, there is a new movie called the Sound of Freedom in theatres as this goes to press....
