Santa Claus is coming to town for the eighth annual Beach Home for the Holidays in Panama City Beach! This Thanksgiving weekend, Visit Panama City Beach invites families to kick off the most wonderful time of the year with a magical celebration at Aaron Bessant Park, featuring carol-themed concerts,...
Welcome the Holidays Through Times Past
By Margaret Zonia Morrison
Our neighboring county, Walton, will celebrate its bicentennial in 2024. Commemorations like this call to mind history and tradition. Both the stately Wesley House, located at Eden Gardens State Park in Walton County, and the Christmas celebration that has become a welcome herald of...
The Friends of Camp Helen’s eighth Annual Pumpkin Patch is officially open! They will remain open daily from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. throughout October. On Saturdays from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., the patch will also have various entertainment.
“We are so excited to be hosting our eighth annual...
By Will Estell
If you’re a fan of the arts—whether visually, musically or through their power of healing, and if you live anywhere in Okaloosa, Walton or Bay Counties, then you’re likely already familiar with Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation (MKAF)—the outreach and events this organization has been bringing to Northwest Florida’s Gulf...
By Ed Offley
Bay County Transit, also known as Bayway, has become the newest partner with the Anchorage Children’s Home in providing emergency support to young people in crisis, according to Bayway Program Administrator Lamar Hobbs.
“It’s critical to ensure that every young person has a place to go and someone...
The Lake Powell Community Alliance (LPCA) together with St. Andrew Bay Watch (RMA), Friends of Camp Helen State Park, and Bay County Audubon invite you to participate in a community effort to clean up Lake Powell. Sign-in will begin promptly at 8 a.m. on Saturday, September 16, at the...
By Ed Offley
After two years of construction, the Duplin Winery is open for business on its 70-acre site at 10101 Panama City Beach Parkway.
Located on the former grounds of the Hombre Golf Club, the 35,000-square-foot winery complex is presenting itself as both a significant PCB employer and a major...
By Sharon Michalik, Director of Communications, Bay District Schools
We’re so excited to begin the 2023-2024 school year with all of our students, staff members, mentors, volunteers and one very special new addition... our new Superintendent Mark McQueen.
Superintendent McQueen, who is a retired Major General with the United States Army...
By Ed Offley
A new crop of colorful public art sculptures is now in place at locations throughout Panama City Beach.
City Council last August approved SeeLife 2, the second phase of a public arts program begun in early 2021 that initially placed eleven dolphin and sea turtle sculptures at sites...
By Sheriff Tommy Ford
I’m beyond frustrated at the situation that we have with tragic and unnecessary deaths in the Gulf. I have watched deputies, firefighters, and lifeguards risk their lives to save strangers. I have seen strangers die trying to save their children and loved ones, including two fathers...
