Sheriff Gilbert touts round jail model as Okaloosa plans expansion
Okaloosa County will spend 350000 to add jail cells within six to eight months to curb overcrowding. Sheriff Larry Gilbert praised the round jail concept, noting it added 84 cells at low cost using inmate labor and county materials. He hopes to duplicate the design for a second facility and warns without expansion the county risks a federal court order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Chitwood
Okaloosa County
Pike
Larry Gilbert
Destin Kiwanis Club
Gilbert
Tire Splitter Use To Be Controlled By Ingrid Kreis
Okaloosa Island tire splitter will operate with a locking key system to curb illegal tire dumping. Signs will warn fishermen that no tires may be dumped from March 1 to November 1 to prevent mosquito breeding, with the fire department monitoring use and providing keys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ingrid Kreis
Okaloosa
Okaloosa Island
Spey
Jim Hooks
Destin Harbor
Joy Dunlap
Rex Chambless Leads 12th Christmas Visit To VA Hospital
Rex Chambless and volunteers from Florida's Panhandle plan ten Christmas parties at the Tuskegee VA Hospital. The effort aligns DAV VFW and the American Legion with Fort Walton Beach ROTC help since 1971. They served hundreds of patients in recent years and invite others to join the 6 a.m. departure from K Mart to Tuskegee and 9:30 p.m. return.
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Karen MacGrogan
Rex
Agnes Chambless
Calhoun Avenue
Tuskegee, AL
Chambless
Montgomery
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Disabled Veterans
Florida
Panhandle
Tuskegee Facility
DAV
VFW
The
Legion
Fort Walton Beach High
Montgomery Hospital
Tuskegee
K-Mart
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Kiwanis
Julian Chesser
Destin
R.R. Moore
Johnny Strickland
Strickland
Buford
S.C
Florida Marine Patrol
U.S. Coast Guard
Destin Chamber of Commerce
Charter Boat Association
Patterson
Dunlap
Gulf
Garfield
Shores Shopping Center
Our Christmas Club
First National Bank of Destin
Reas
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