Hair salon has classic feel; massage therapist has compassionate touch
PIN-UP GIRLS HAIR STUDIO Cute, edgy and retro with a modern twist almost describes Pin-Up Girls Hair Studio, but there’s more to the look than hair pins and spray. Owners Maria Nieves and Jeannie Pope...
View ArticleFAC: Planning for BP money will pay off for counties
Florida is behind other Gulf Coast states in preparing a multi-year plan to spend money that will come to a 23-county consortium through the RESTORE Act. But according to a representative of the...
View ArticleBluewater Bay Resort moves ahead with plans to shorten golf course
BLUEWATER BAY — Bluewater Bay Resort LLC has submitted its plans to shorten four holes on the Magnolia golf course and sell the extra land for single-family and multi-family housing. Bluewater Bay...
View Article‘It’s just a way to get to work’
In the open water of Poquito Bayou on a sunny winter morning, the swimmers are barely visible. All you can see is a dark head, maybe a shoulder, moving steadily through the water, trailed by an...
View ArticleVICTORA: No sense splitting hairs over someone’s appearance
Once upon a time, long before I was married, I dated a hairdresser. I remember being worried that on our first date he would be staring at my hair. It’s kind of sending a love letter to a writer and...
View ArticleA sign for a sign (VIDEO, GALLERY)
FORT WALTON BEACH — With a smile on every face, some 50 protesters pressed to the edge of the sidewalk Saturday as they waved and chanted at cars passing on Beal Parkway. Their signs calling for the...
View ArticleKatie Renfroe celebrates her birthday at Fat Daddy’s Arcade
DESTIN — Katie Renfroe couldn’t stop gazing at the blue ceiling at Fat Daddy’s Arcade, mesmerized by the quarter-sized mirrors that twinkled down on her. “I don’t think she ever gets bored,” said her...
View ArticleCalling all beautiful babies!
When it comes to babies, you know yours is the most beautiful — not just on the Emerald Coast but the entire world. Here’s your chance to let the entire world in on your secret: Enter the Daily News’...
View Article10-year–old witnesses history at inauguration
CRESTVIEW — A three-day trip to Washington, D.C., for President Barack Obama’s inauguration has convinced a Bob Sikes Elementary School student that she wants to see more. For Justice Livingston, a...
View ArticleProposed strip club draws opposition
DESTIN — Patti Terjak isn’t putting out the welcome mat for her potential new neighbor: a strip club likely to be called The Runway. Terjak isn’t alone. More than 60 people opposed to the business...
View ArticleDesign of consolidated rec center moves forward
FORT WALTON BEACH — The City Council is one step closer to finalizing the design of the consolidated recreation center that will replace the Fred Hedrick Center on Jet Drive. Architect and...
View ArticleWorld War II vet recalls P-51 missions
FORT WALTON BEACH — In January 1944, the Army Air Forces handed then-21-year-old Charlie Shiff a pistol and a tin hat and loaded him onto a train to New York and then on a ship across the Atlantic...
View ArticleCoyote Ugly coming to Destin
DESTIN — A Coyote Ugly Saloon is set to open on Destin Harbor. “We finalized the lease two days ago,” owner Joanna Olsen said last week. Coyote Ugly, which is slated to open in the former Shed BBQ...
View ArticleCrestview woman to appear on ‘Today’ show for cooking prize
CRESTVIEW— An award-winning home chef has added a feather to her toque blanche. Sherri Williams, who won Crock-Pot’s Crockin’ in the USA contest in December, started last weekend on a high note with a...
View ArticleChautauqua Festival (SLIDESHOW)
History comes to life at the 2013 Chautauqua Assembly festival held this weekend in DeFuniak Springs. Visitors Sunday got an up-close look at the tools and lifestyles of Native Americans and watched a...
View ArticleBody of woman found in bay
A woman’s body was found Sunday in Choctawhatchee Bay behind a home at 4105 Indian Trail in Destin, according to a news release from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. The remains were partially in...
View ArticleMotorcyclist critical following Sunday wreck
A 57-year-old motorcyclist is in critical condition following a wreck on Old Bagdad Highway and Rice Road. Thomas Alton Sanders was traveling east on Old Bagdad when the rear tire of his 1977 Honda...
View ArticleLETTER: Cinco stands tall
The Daily News believes that our neighbor should annex our town of Cinco Bayou because not enough residents qualify for open council seats (editorial, “Cinco comes up short again,” Jan. 10). These...
View ArticleLETTER: An armed 'militia'
And yet another letter writer misquotes the Second Amendment. The writer of “A cheaper plan” (Jan. 20) says the amendment “plainly states that the right to bear arms is to protect ourselves from a...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Kicking the can down the road
Sometimes, members of a government board will delay a decision on a high-profile issue because they’re dithering and indecisive or because they’re skittish about the political backlash. Other times,...
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