Walton County News

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Beaches of South Walton, Fla: The Walton County Planning Commission is rewriting expanding the height ordinance that is largely responsible for South Walton's ritzy atmosphere.

The alert action of two Walton County Sheriff's deputies leads to the arrest of an unsolved theft case.

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DeFuniak Springs Police arrested three men involved with damaging recently installed historic street signs in the City late Tuesday night.

Sheriff Michael Adkinson is serious about policing handicapped parking. As the result of a May 18 meeting with a member of the county's Americans with Disabilities Act task force, Adkinson said he will begin enforcing handicapped parking.

The consul general for Chile traveled from Miami on Thursday to attend accused murderer Dannie Baker's pretrial hearing.

None of the nearly 450 active development orders in Walton County will be affected if a countywide height ordinance goes into effect as expected later this summer, according to Gerry Demers, the county's director of development services.

During a traffic stop, north of DeFuniak Springs on the evening of June 16, Walton County Sheriffa s deputies encountered a drunk, naked driver.

Laugh if you will, but state transportation officials and wildlife researchers say a $3.4 million pair of tunnels under a busy North Florida highway is a serious safety project -- for people, too.

Actually, it's not free. The county's taxpayers have paid thousands of dollars to support the benefit.

A Benefit Catfish Dinner is being held for 12 year-old Zachary Cook at Wee Care Park in DeFuniak Springs on June 19th, 10 am to 4pm.

A man found naked behind the here wheel was charged with DUI. Dearry Smiley, 58, of DeFuniak Springs, was parked off the shoulder of the road partially blocking traffic on County 1883 Monday night, according to the Walton County Sheriff's Office.

The Walton County Economic Development Alliance is a public/private partnership whose mission is to establish Walton County as a great place to grow businesses, attract new investment, and create quality jobs.

If the first-ever countywide height ordinance is adopted as proposed, buildings in South Walton County would be limited to a height of 50 feet.

Walton County is seeking a court order to prohibit further mining activity by D&H Sand, a sand pit operation located on Sand Plant Road north of Freeport.

On June 10, 2009, the Walton County Sheriffa TMs Office Narcotic Investigators arrested three people on drug charges.

The Walton County Sheriff's Office received a call around 9:15 PM on June the 6th from a Paxton resident that a 15 ft alligator was sitting in the middle of the road in a residential neighborhood.

Suzanne Harris submitted a public records request to Walton County in October of 2008.

A South Walton County firefighter's rape charge was reduced to a misdemeanor Monday, over the objections of the alleged victim.