By Doug Stauffer
Gov. Ron DeSantis has visited Okaloosa County four times this year. In February, he visited Northwest Florida State College to announce a bill allocating $10 million for workforce charter schools. In April, he stopped in Destin to proclaim the extended snapper fishing season.
In May, Gov. DeSantis visited...
The Rotary Club of Mid-Bay Bridge held its 23rd annual charity golf tournament at the Bluewater Bay Golf Course June 3, raising more than $11,300. The tournament, which had 62 sponsors, was a Florida Scramble that included 23 teams/92 golfers from many Rotary clubs and local businesses and organizations....
With hurricane season upon us, Florida Power & Light Company partnered with Feeding the Gulf Coast to distribute hurricane meal kits to homebound residents in DeFuniak Springs. Together, FPL, Florida Council on Aging and Feeding the Gulf Coast are distributing more than 150 hurricane preparedness kits to seniors in...
During Mid-Bay Rotary’s May 19 meeting, Rotary President Steve Wolfrom presented four of its five $2,000 scholarships to deserving students.
From left: Morgan Lynch (Rocky Bayou Christian School), Tiana Fontejon (Niceville High School), Carly Brooks (Niceville High School) and Elisabetta Savini (Collegiate High School). Not pictured is Jeremy Alverez (Niceville...
Game matchups for the eighth annual Emerald Coast Classic have been announced.
Eight basketball teams will compete Nov. 25-26 in the tournament, which will be held at Raider Arena on the campus of Northwest Florida State College.
Iowa will face Clemson in a semifinal round game at 6 p.m. central time...
Starborough, maker of sustainable wine, is passionate about protecting and restoring the oceans. In celebration of World Coral Reef Awareness Day, Starborough partnered with Reefmaker, the largest reef builder in the U.S., to deploy its first limestone reef two miles off the coast of Fort Walton Beach this month....
Northwest Florida State College (NWFSC) was pleased to welcome three new assistant coaches to the Raiders basketball teams.
Joshua Shen joined the women’s basketball team after finishing one year as Assistant Coach at the reigning Division 3 American Southwest Conference Regular Season champs, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (UMHB) in Belton,...
By Larry Williams, UF/IFAS Extension Agent, Okaloosa
If a little bit is good, then a whole lot more must be better, right? Wrong. This is faulty logic, at least when it applies to pesticides.
A pesticide is any chemical used to control or kill a pest. Examples include insecticides (designed to...
The Emerald Coast Tennis Center is overhauling several tennis courts to make room for eight pickleball courts at 1200 Oakmont Drive in the Gleneagles subdivision of Bluewater Bay, with the hope of opening June 1.
Pickleball is a racket sport that was created by combining elements of several other racket...
On April 28, the Air Force Research Laboratory and Eglin Air Force Base’s Integrated Test Team demonstrated a new low-cost, air-delivered capability for defeating maritime threats, that successfully destroyed a full-scale surface vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. The vessel was the COURAGEOUS and our Coastal Resource Team was...
