By Liesel Schmidt
Designers of every ilk, be it fashion or home and interior, wait expectantly for Pantone’s annual release of its color of the year, anticipating the ways said color will influence trends on the runway and the real way. And while some in the know had an inkling...
By Sherry Jones
The energy was electric inside the University of West Florida’s Fine and Performing Arts Center in Pensacola on Sunday, March 9, 2025. Families, friends, and supporters from across the region gathered to witness a moment in history—the inaugural Miss West Florida Scholarship Competition.
Two remarkable young women emerged...
By Carolyn Newcomer Ketchel
The building that is almost finished is the new south end agricultural building. The previous south end AG building on Hollywood Boulevard in Fort Walton Beach was very old and long dilapidated. Hurricane Sally finally finished it off. In case you have not seen the new...
By Kelly Murphy-Redd
Descending by parachute, Howard Hill saw someone with a rifle running down the dirt road in his direction. When he landed, two men in militia outfits and pith helmets stood 10 feet away, looking down the sights of their rifles with bayonets. Forty to fifty more came...
Get ready for an unforgettable evening of conservation, celebration, and coastal fun at Gulfarium’s CARE on the Coast on April 26, 2025, at 3:30 PM! This annual festival brings together delicious food, refreshing drinks, live entertainment, and marine animal encounters for a one-of-a-kind event benefiting the Gulfarium CARE Center’s...
By Barbara Palmgren
This is the 50th year of the ending of the Vietnam War in April, 2025, and many military and civic groups will conduct tributes to the veterans of our nation who served. In addition, the U. S. military organized three refugee camps to help citizens of South...
By Christopher Manson
“Now and then we had the hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
– Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
The Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival returns to Fort Walton Beach May 15-19 with fireworks, a parade, fun family activities and much...
By Kelly-Murphy Redd
John Wambough says courage and love of country was the glue and inspiration that kept the F-105 fighter jet pilots climbing high in the sky at record speeds over North Vietnam. Retired Colonel John H. Wambough, remembers the heroic past of his pilot friends who daily went...
By Rev. Guery Clendenning
There is a prophecy in the Old Testament of the Bible concerning the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.It is found in Isaiah 52: 13-15 in the New Living Translation: “See, my servant will prosper; he will be highly exalted. But many were amazed when they...
