Major Storm Turns Strangers Into Family
The kindness of neighbors brought people through the hardest times
Author: Steve Bornhoft
Alexa Guarachi Climbs The Tennis Ladder
The Destin native and tennis champion is going for the top
Local Sculptor Covets Peace as Part of His Process
The native Hawaiian has brought his art to Panama City Beach
Best of the Emerald Coast Event Helps Clothe Children In Need
The Junior League of the Emerald Coast supports hurricane victims with Child Clothing Project.
Selflessness Asks No Reward
During such trying times, selflessness is what shines the brightest.
Contest Winner Erin Mason Has Reclaimed Her Passion
Inspired by her grandson, the photographer is finding "art in the ordinary."
Safe Water for Walton Looks After Precious Resource
The Walton County nonprofit is concerned about the disposal of leachate.
Fine Wine, Spirits, Food and Finery
Harvest Festival celebrates good life, benefits children
Extravaganza Celebrates the Best of the Emerald Coast
Fraser Hansen who, corpulently speaking, is anything but stout, poured me a cup of an India Pale Ale that he calls Divide and Conch’r from a can he retrieved from an iced-down cooler. As a sponsor of the 2018 edition…
Panama City Spirit Hunters Seek Clues to the Paranormal
KnightEyes Paranormal Investigations is making a name for themselves across the Southeast.
Bob Dylan Gets into The Whiskey Business
Favoring Shakespearean storylines and Tennesee bourbon, the musician has a new adventure ahead.
Settled in Seagrove, Albert Bruns is a “Student of Culture”
Bruns explores his deep ties to the quaint town of Seagrove Beach.
Resolution of Beach-Access Issue is a Matter of Respect
Let’s say you are the executive director of an organization, the Gator State Conservancy, which is committed to acquiring and preserving environmentally sensitive lands. Your organization purchases an undeveloped tract from the state of Florida. For many generations, that…
Groundbreaking Ceremony Kicks Off the Construction of 250 Room Sandestin Hotel
photo by hannah burke Highgate COO Steve Barick, left, and Walton County Commissioner Tony Anderson, wielded ceremonial shovels as Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort owner Tom Becnel and Sara Becnel, the resort’s vice president of development, looked on. Seven years…
Destin’s Alexa Guarachi Takes Her Place Among World’s Top Tennis Players
Photo by Robert Hradil Alexa Guarachi prepares to return a serve during tournament play in Gstaad, Switzerland, where she won her first World Tennis Association doubles title in July. Alexa Guarachi of Destin and her doubles partner, Erin Routliffe,…
Phillip Stutts Challenges Business Execs to Use Change to Their Advantage
Six years ago, Phillip Stutts was diagnosed with Achalasia, a rare and degenerative autoimmune disease that disables the esophagus, eventually making eating impossible. For years, he took doctors at their word when they said the disease was incurable, that…
The Whitney Family in Sandestin
Kitty Whitney had embarked on a critical-care nursing career as her husband, Todd, accepted his first electrical engineering position with a computer hardware manufacturer, Dallas Semiconductor. Off to Dallas, Texas, they went. The couple realized the need to set goals…
Gulf and Storm Give Pace to Panama City Beach-Based Novel, the Lucky Two
The cats are out of the bag in this weird and quirky novel.
He Hung the Crescent Moon, That Is, Wrench
A few years ago by now, I gave a motion-detecting camera to a wildlife-watching friend of mine, sure that he would enjoy a device capable of capturing images of fur-bearing critters marauding his bird feeders at wee hours of…
Pandemic Claims Life of Pensacola’s Fred Levin
The harder you work, says Levin, the luckier you get.
Sandestin Real Estate’s Kitty Whitney Has Made a Career of Developing Businesses
"Life is primarily for laughing, loving and living; it isn’t just for whining, worrying and working.”
Insisting Upon Tomorrow
I spied the tiniest of turtles, little more than a hatchling. For long minutes, it moved not at all, flotsam with its head protruding above the surface of the pond. I thought about the odds that the creature had…
Gulf Coast Surfers Share Stories and Waves
Local surfers reminisce on riding the waves and staking their turf.
Ron Holman Recreates Broadway in Bay County
To theater in Bay County, Ron Holman has been a big daddy
Whiskeys Saloon Brings Nashville to the Beach
Panama City Beach bar has long been the epicenter of country music on the Emerald Coast
Captain David Mangum and Tom Logan Share Fly Fishing Passions
Fly tyers may work in bold strokes or exacting detail
Even Clownfish Sing the Blues
From Spring Break mayhem to small-town murder, Tim Dorsey’s protagonist keeps “serging.”
Coming Home and Giving Back
Champion golfer is focused on community.
The Next Time You Feel Like Trying
Susan Davis is a product of unlikely circumstances. She was a child of 4 when her father was awarded custody of her. That, alone, was unusual. Even more so was Dad’s preparedness to serve Susan as both father and mother.…
A Prescient Few
Every Monday morning at 7:30, line-of-business managers and executive management team members gathered round a fabulously expensive, custom-made mahogany table in a conference room that overlooked 23rd Street in Panama City, then to await the arrival of the bank’s founder…
Living the Salty Life
Tom Putnam’s office is in a featureless metal building located maybe a hundred yards behind the tackle business on Thomas Drive in Panama City Beach that his father established in 1972. There, he spends his workdays doing something that he…
Art Week South Walton
Ten years ago, Mike Ragsdale looked upon the alabaster facades that uniformly characterize the buildings at Alys Beach in South Walton County and saw something more than white walls. Jacqueline Ward Images Projection art was born as a product of…
Retired Physicist Who Champions Children
Leon Walters serves as Bay Education Foundation president.
These Sport Fishers are the Kings of the Gulf
Hit the high seas and the deep blue with the latest in sportfishing yachts.
The Light that Unites
A graphic artist looked up from his work in response to a rapping on the window nearest his work station. Outside stood an unfamiliar man pouring sweat and with a plaintive look on his face. The artist motioned the man…
The Chautauqua School
At the Chautauqua Charter School in Panama City, the entire community serves students as a classroom.
For Paul Busuttil, Bar Business Was Just the Beginning
Where else can you get a dozen bull minnows and a cold Bud at 2 a.m.?
Kevin Dodge’s Marine Photography is Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen
Marine photographer Kevin Dodge captures stunning images of creatures of the deep.
Getting Personal With 3 Local Chefs
Man’s relationship with food is ever evolving. We are born knowing instinctively what we need, grow to discover what we like and over time may increasingly become concerned about what foods like us. But never do we outgrow a taste…
