Destin Airport Seeks Name Change to Coleman L. Kelly Field
Okaloosa County Commissioners backed removing Fort Walton Beach from the Destin airfield name to honor Coleman Kelly for selling land for the site and to avoid confusion with nearby airports. The change will be added to the county airport master plan and awaits FAA approval. The board also asked an engineering firm to study extending the runway by 500 feet.
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Destin
Coleman L. Kelly
Okaloosa County
Destin Chamber of Commerce
Fort Walton Beach
Coleman Kelly
Florida Air Transportation Guide
Federal Aviation Administration
State Delays Decision On Holiday Isle Land Move
State and Holiday Isle property owners delay relocation decision as grants and legal descriptions undergo settlement review. DNR Bureau of Land Management hoped to decide on Thursday but awaits attorney clearance. Doster Construction work on Waterviews Towers paused after county red- tagged land movement concerns. Corps of Engineers spoil easements and state property questioned Viewers prompted by Holiday Isle Improvement Association.
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Holiday Isle
Isle
Grant Gerhardt
Department of Natural Resources
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau
DNR
Doster
Waterviews Towers
Beach Cleanup Aids Okaloosa County Beaches
A beach clean-up to launch Keep America Beautiful Week runs 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on April 16 in Okaloosa County. The Okaloosa Clean Community System sponsors the effort with Gulf Coast Paper Co donating bags and Northwest Florida Sanitation Services providing pickup. Food and drinks are supplied by Fire Refrigeration Co Colonial Bakery Kellys IGA and Coca Cola Bottling Co. Destin Chamber of Commerce 837 6241 and Christine Watson 651 5001 offer more details.
Bay Research Is Far From Finished
NWFWMD officials told the Okaloosa Democratic Women's Club that a study on Choctawhatchee Bay is only an initial technical evaluation, not a causeway probe. They stressed that environmental impact work would require many agencies and that a bridge may be favored over an earthen causeway.
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Vanita Trippe
Choctawhatchee Bay Causeway Authority
Northwest Florida Water Management District
Bill McCartney
Nwfwmd
Choctawhatchee Bay
James Ward
Causeway Authority
Destin panel weighs public marina mobile home park plan
A Destin citizens panel revising a Tallahassee study will evaluate site options for a 500 slip public marina on Jones Bayou or Joe's Bayou, a mobile home park east of KOA Campground, and an east west arterial along Azalea Drive to guide zoning. Members will draft tracing paper overlays on county maps and present revisions at upcoming public hearings.
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Ingrid Kreis
Citizens’ Panel
Destin Peninsula
Tallahassee
Destin
Collier Houston
Destin Citizens Group
Houston
Jones Bayou
Piney Point
Mattie Kelly
Joe’s Bayou
WMMK
Kelly
Peninsula
John McCabe
Azalea Drive
Azalea
Jane Moore
McCabe
Reggie Moore
Mark Frederick
State Department of Transportation
Mattie
Burney
Henderson
Moore
John Cox
Destin Airport
Destin Bridge
Okaloosa County
Peebles
Board of County Commissioners
County Commission
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Stewart Lane
Act
Aileen
Shild's
Lore So
Haggar
Greemfields
SUN
Destin Harbor
Sandestin
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