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Great turn out for Red Bay Grocery and Nick’s Seafood Restaurants’ bream tournament

Red Bay Grocery and Nick’s Seafood Restaurant presented their 6th Annual Bream World Championships on Sat., June 14 at Red Bay Grocery. It was a great turn out with 17 teams competing in various categories including biggest bream, total weight of six bream, heaviest stringer, largest non-bream species, and junior angler. Highlights of the tournament were: First Place: Joseph Wood and Robert Bowers with a total of 3.78 lbs. Second Place: Grices’ grandsons with a total of 3.42 lbs. Third...

Walton County fishing report for June 11

Fishing is good! Choctawhatchee Bay area: Lots of redfish throughout the bay along with a few big trout. Surf: Early morning pompano biting River: Shellcracker, bass, and hybrids Click here for fishing forecast Bay and river report brought to you by Copeland’s. “Where the locals shop and the tourists are welcome.” Click here to find out more about Copeland’s. Copeland’s Gun and Tackle Shop 17290 U.S. Hwy. 331 S Freeport, Florida 32439 (850) 835-4277 Store hours: Mon. – Fri.: 6...

TESLA vehicle charging stations coming to DeFuniak Springs

On June 9, 2014 the DeFuniak Springs City Council approved a request by TESLA Motors to install and equip six vehicle charging stations within the city limits. TESLA Motors is an American company based out of Palo Alto, California that designs, manufactures, and sells high-performance electric vehicles. TESLA representative Beau Whiteman gave a brief presentation to the Council explaining its long-term goals to provide charging stations across the U.S. The six charging station spaces will be at one location in...

Alaqua Animal refuge furever friends of the week

“Hay!” My name is Ellie and my best friend is Little Ricky. We were born at Alaqua Animal Refuge in March of 2013. Our moms were rescued and brought to the safe haven of this amazing place called Alaqua. We are so lucky, because we have never known anything but love and outstanding care our entire lives here at Alaqua. I guess you could say we have been the “mane attraction” around here. We have been “horsing around” a lot!...

Walton County Sheriff’s Office hosting free summer camps in July

The WCSO Citizen Services Unit and School Resource Deputies will host two free summer camps in July. The first camp will take place July 7 thru July 11 and the second will run from July 21 thru July 25. The camps will be held at Maude Sanders Elementary School, located at 416 John Baldwin Road, DeFuniak Springs, for children ages 6 to 10 years of age. Both camps will be from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. with lunch provided. Students will...

Nick’s Seafood Restaurant wraps-up 14th annual Speckled Trout Shootout

by Jeffrey Powell/De Funiak Springs Herald Nick’s seafood restaurant in Basin Bayou is usually a pretty quiet place on Monday nights as it is normally closed. The exception to that rule is the annual Speckled Trout Shootout fishing tournament wrap up fish fry and awards ceremony. In its 14th year now, the tournament is a nine-day affair that attracted 90 anglers to compete in eight divisions. This year the tournament had a very diverse group of anglers with both sexes...