68th Annual Billy Bowlegs Festival | May 16-20
By Lori Leath Smith
Ahoy, maties! Avast, ye! It’s time to open your treasure chest, get your eyepatch on, take out your sword and get your pirate gear ready for 2024’s 68th Annual Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival—May 16-20. Any landlubber knows Pirate Captain...
By Michelle Ruschman
There’s no doubt that most people would see our area as abundant, and it is. We live where other people work all year to get to and snowbirds spend entire seasons with us. We have a thriving military community as well as many successful small business owners...
By Megan Trainer
You won’t want to miss all the excitement at Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park this year! Located on Okaloosa Island, the Gulfarium recently unveiled its new Dolphin Oasis, an exciting new addition which sets a new benchmark for marine life experiences. Further, this announcement was accompanied by news...
High Performance Lab Completes a Wellness Trifecta
By Lori Leath Smith, Publisher
Your local wellness center, CRYO850, recently added a state-of-the-art Performance Lab to its already robust arsenal of offerings for local athletes, fitness professionals, military personnel, coaches, exercise enthusiasts and those, like me, simply wanting to keep their bodies as...
By Michelle Ruschman
If you’ve ever driven down Beach Drive, you may have noticed several gardeners working at the front of Destin Church of Christ and admired the incredible garden. The man who had the idea for the beautification project is just as extraordinary. Meet our hometown hero Richard Gliebe,...
By Michelle Ruschman
When missionaries, Mike and Libby Wild, began making videos with their four sons in 2011, no one in the family dreamed it would one day become Wild Brothers Productions. In less than 10 years, what started as a video series for friends and family in the Niceville area,...
By Will Estell
If you’ve been a resident of Destin or the nearby coastal communities of Miramar Beach, Fort Walton Beach or Niceville for any length of time, you’ve probably heard a great deal about Destin High School, and the immense dedication and work of those involved in making the...
By Stephenie Craig
The holidays are over and New Year messages are here. Change yourself. Change your life. Lose weight. Earn more money. Look younger. Do more. Take better trips. Buy better stuff. Eat differently. You and your life aren’t enough. Spend money to be a better, more acceptable version...
By Melissa Fertitta
February marks the 20th anniversary of the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women initiative.
Started in 2004, Go Red for Women prioritizes educating women about their risk for cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women, taking a life every 80 seconds, according to...
