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Habitat Walton County Doubles Volunteers at 2nd Annual Women Build Day Over 37 volunteers dedicated time and strength to help build Habitat Homes 47 and 48 at all-women home build event. In December Habitat for Humanity of Walton County hosted the 2nd annual Women Build Day with over 37 volunteers, double...
People of South Walton: Regina Jaquess of Emerald Coast Compounding Regina Jaquess balances her life between being a local business owner and a professional athlete. She is a pharmacist who owns Emerald Coast Compounding Pharmacy on Hwy 393, just north of 30A, and runs the business with her sister Renee. When...
ROSEMARY BEACH FOUNDATION PRESENTS The 13th ANNUAL GIRLS GETAWAY Thursday, February 1 – Sunday, February 4, 2018 Rosemary Beach Foundation presents its 13th Annual Girls Getaway on Thursday, February 1 through Sunday, February 4, 2018. Held each year during Super Bowl weekend, Girls Getaway has become a tradition that many local...
Since my time in middle school I never really understood the need for the semicolon. Honestly, it just seemed to serve no purpose. I thought, ‘Just use a period, start a new sentence and move on to another subject. That was the amount of thought I gave to the lowly semicolon. Life...
It has been one year since I assumed the office of the Walton County Superintendent of Schools. It has been the honor of a lifetime. During that time numerous programs have been realigned with new vision, and new initiatives are underway. Here are a few of the top projects...
In December, in honor of his great sacrifice for our country, Air Force Captain Nathan Nelson was gifted a mortgage-free home from nonprofit “Building Homes for Heroes”, an organization that builds and modifies homes to gift mortgage-free to wounded veterans and their families. During this celebration, Captain Nelson, his...
By Heather Bennett             The Boys and Girls Clubs of the Emerald Coast is one of 41 chapters in Florida under the bannerof the National Boys and Girls Clubs of America. The Boys and Girls Clubs provide after school and summer education and guidance programs. “Primarily, we’re a youth development organization,”...
At the request of Walton County Democratic Party Chair Margie Jordan and other community leaders the Walton County Board of County Commissioners took up the issue of the Confederate Flag hanging at the County Courthouse. The Board voted in 2015 to keep the Flag flying as a memorial to...

Redeem the Time

By Tad Hunter Ben Franklin once asked, “Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.” As Christmas approaches once again, it seems as though we just finished celebrating the New Year! There are 86,400 seconds in every day. The seconds...
By Maurice Stouse As investors continued to see higher highs in the stock market, and consistent lows in interest rates in the bond and money markets, they wonder how long each of these trends could or would continue. Looking at things historically can remind investors to think of the market...