Dink For Pink | Sat., Oct. 9, 2021
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. | Hammock Bay Pickle Ball Courts, Freeport
“This is what our world needs more of—Community, Unity and Love. Make someone’s day a little less blue.”
~ Chelsea Berler
By Lori Smith
The power of pink is everywhere this October as many are...
By Michelle Ruschman
“Twenty-two veterans kill themselves every day. We are just trying to reduce that 22 by giving them more purpose and giving them a distraction if nothing else.”
~ Jeff Powell
Local Jeff Powell is the founder and President of Veterans 48, a 501c3 non-profit organization, whose goal is...
The seventh annual Emerald Coast Classic college basketball tournament, presented by Global Sports, will be played Thanksgiving weekend Nov. 26-27 at The Arena on the campus of Northwest Florida State College. Area basketball fans can purchase tickets now, from $15 on the ticket link on the official tournament website,...
Not Your Ordinary 55 and Over Gathering Place
By Lori Leath Smith
Are you aware that more than 10,000 senior adults live in the greater Niceville area? Needless to say, Niceville’s Senior Center is a popular “hang-out,” and one where the aging outlook has been redefined! And now it’s welcoming members...
By L. Smith
Seven Rip Current deaths have occurred in Florida so far in 2021—three of those occurring in our area, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
In March, Miramar Beach was open, but with red-flag warnings about dangerous surf. Pete Rosengren, 42, a father of three from Illinois died...
By Lori Leath Smith
While incarcerated, Destin resident and Army veteran Geoff Speyrer never dreamed he’d one day be a champion of bringing hope and awareness to veteran suicide. But now he is!
Sadly, 22 veterans and active-duty members per day take their lives thinking there is no hope.
But Geoff has...
By Brian L. Underwood, CBEP Executive Director, and Lori Smith, Publisher
One of our area’s most beautiful, coveted and useful resources has been experiencing significant challenges—ones that affect water quality, natural systems and benefits provided by our own Choctawhatchee Bay. And, whether you think about it or not, this massive...
By Lori Leath Smith
One usually travels TO a wall, but this one’s coming to us! The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall© is arriving in our area to be showcased at Gulf Cemetery’s Memorial Day service, fitting for this year’s theme “United in Sacrifice, Honored in Remembrance.”
To be displayed throughout Memorial...
