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By Stacy Lingenfelter Sarikanon, Stunning Spaces – Decorating Den Interiors Stay in your easy chair and join the legions of homeowners who are rediscovering the familiar comforts of home! With the advent of large-screened televisions and in-home movie rooms, home has truly become the “in” place to be after a...

By Barbara Palmgren, Bay Life Reporter and Author, “Saving A Golf Course” I’ve come to realize that sometimes in life we are fortunate to have opportunities to step up in times of adversity, to be one more person to say, “Let’s roll. Let’s do...

Niceville 8/25 North Miami Beach Home Won 61-0 9/1 Milton Home Won 42-7 9/7 Lincoln, Tallahassee Home Lost 28-14 9/15 Chiles Away Won 19-14 9/22 Choctawhatchee Home 9/29 Crestview Home 10/6 Pine Forest, Pensacola Home 10/20 Leon, Tallahassee Home 10/26 Mosley, Lynn Haven Away 11/3 Navarre Home Freeport 8/25 Destin Home Lost 31-15 9/1 Jay Home Lost 20-14 9/8 Liberty County, Bristol Away Lost 20-17 9/15 Cottondale Home Won 42-36 9/22 Vernon Away 9/29...

Highway Dedication Ceremony Honoring Mayor Randall Wise, a 48-Year Public Servant The City of Niceville will dedicate Partin Drive/State Road 285 from Hwy. 20 to College Blvd. in honor of the late Mayor Randall Wise. This event will celebrate the legacy of Mayor Wise, who dedicated nearly 49 years of...

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...