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Where there is ‘Hope’
When we last met Hope there was scant: hope, that is.Now, with wounds healed, a new home and, most of all, a new name, Hope (we shall soon learn she now → Read More
Gulf County tees up golf course
GULF COUNTY — The county is in the golfing game.Gulf County closed over the weekend on the purchase of St. Joseph Bay Golf Club, assuming operations Monday.County Administrator Michael Hammond said Wednesday during a special meeting of the Board of County Commissioners that county staff, more particularly the Tourist Development Council, would likely operate the course and facilities for several… → Read More
Drone institute to establish PSJ training center
PORT ST. JOE — The technology pieces aligning in Gulf County are beginning to resemble a cluster.The Unmanned Safety Institute, which provides → Read More
PSJ nixes ‘Forgotten Coast’ concert
PORT ST. JOE — The slate of Fourth of July events proposed for Port St. Joe next week was pared by one by city commissioners.Commissioners would not allow a proposed July 3 concert to be permitted, putting the kibosh to an event that morphed in content from family-oriented to a distinctly R rating.The event, the Forgotten Coast Music Festival, was initially proposed as a family-oriented night of… → Read More
The past could mean the future for Wewahitchka church
PORT ST. JOE — Carol Wood could be said to symbolize the congregation at First Presbyterian Church of Wewahitchka.Wood, the church’s → Read More
Rare leatherback sea turtle found nesting on St. Joe peninsula
PORT ST. JOE — One sea turtle arriving during the weekend apparently had some issues with time and space. But it made for quite the Mother’s → Read More
Florida kitten 'Bridget' on the mend after 60-foot fall off bridge
PORT ST. JOE — If cats truly have nine lives, five-week-old Bridget is already operating at a deficit.Bridget, as we she was named because her origins and name were unknown, arrived into public view in the most horrific of ways after falling Sunday afternoon, some 50-60 feet, from the Highland View Bridge.How the cat came to make that fall is also unknown.“We really aren’t sure if somebody was… → Read More
Turning Hurricane Michael debris into a comfortable place to sit down
INDIAN PASS — Indian Pass resident Chuck Regner had little problem finding a use for much of the wood he rounded up after Hurricane Michael.The reason he sought to collect all that wood may have changed, but Regner has managed to offer a positive from the destruction of Hurricane Michael.Regner initially began collecting the wood from around Indian Pass, C30 and other coastal areas shortly after… → Read More
Gulf deputy’s use of deadly force found justified
PORT ST. JOE — Gulf County Sheriff Mike Harrison said Friday his office’s investigation of a Sunday afternoon shooting in Port St. Joe found a deputy justified in his use of deadly force.Harrison said the actions of a suspect in a gas drive-off in Bay County and later ramming a Tyndall Police vehicle, “ultimately” led to his being killed by a single gunshot.When he exited his vehicle on Avenue A… → Read More
Gulf County scallop season could be latest casualty of Hurricane Michael
PORT ST. JOE — Chalk up one more potential casualty to Hurricane Michael — the 2019 scallop harvest season in St. Joseph Bay.During a public workshop last week researchers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reviewed recent seasons and restoration efforts and examined the impacts of a red tide event that prematurely ended the 2018 season.The red tide event, of course, led… → Read More
Gulf County property values could drop 40 percent following Hurricane Michael
PORT ST. JOE — The board of Triumph Gulf Coast Inc. heard a presentation this week concerning the impacts on property values and tax rolls in just one county hit hard by Hurricane Michael. It was sobering news. Gulf County Property Appraiser Mitch Burke provided the information his employees have gleaned so far in their work to craft a property roll, with a long way to go before the tentative… → Read More
Triumph funds sought for PSJ port
PORT ST. JOE — A Georgia company is seeking more than $47 million in grant funding from Triumph Gulf Coast to create a biomass production facility → Read More
Hurricane Michael doesn't stop senior class photos
PORT ST. JOE — An event such as Hurricane Michael spins many stories, both heartbreaking and uplifting.One story is about Jenny and Scott Smith of Ohio and their daughter Emma, who will soon graduate from high school.“We researched the area and fell in love with Port St. Joe,” Jenny Smith wrote in an email. “So much so that we were able to purchase a vacation home in St. Joe Beach.”And the… → Read More
Items in old wallet yield a few clues
PORT ST. JOE — The puzzle behind the owner of a wallet discovered inside the wall of an apartment after Hurricane Michael has a few pieces filled in.According to one person searching ancestry.com, the man was likely born in Pensacola. And Rhonda Dykes has discovered through her research where he died.But much about the years in between remain blank.The man likely was William Elvin Watts, based… → Read More
Mexico Beach uplifted by hands from N.Y.C.
MEXICO BEACH — Mexico Beach Mayor Al Cathey was opening the mail at City Hall one day last week.Among the letters and other ephemera was a package. → Read More
Wallet found in wall of wrecked Port St. Joe apartment holds mysteries
PORT ST. JOE — Gary Coon and Jason Hunter had been stripping out dry wall damaged by Hurricane Michael when they made a curious discovery. → Read More
Gulf County beach restoration project expands
PORT ST. JOE — Hurricane Michael disrupted much of local life, including a proposed restoration project for the beaches of St. Joseph Peninsula.The long-awaited restoration project was set to begin on Oct. 8, two days before Michael roared ashore along the Forgotten Coast, delaying yet again a project that was deemed pressing more than two years ago.However, Michael did provide something of a… → Read More
Wallet found in wall of wrecked Port St. Joe apartment holds mysteries
PORT ST. JOE — Gary Coon and Jason Hunter had been stripping out dry wall damaged by Hurricane Michael when they made a curious discovery. → Read More
Gulf County makes progress
PORT ST JOE — Three weeks ago, on the evening of the catastrophe that was Hurricane Michael, anybody predicting that most of the Gulf County would → Read More
HURRICANE MICHAEL: Michael’s winds impact new marriage
Tonya and Don Boyd had a special connection to Mexico Beach, one made more heartbreaking by the powerful blow the hurricane delivered to the small fishing → Read More