MPO Gives Nod To Road Plans
Fort Walton Beach MPO adopts an urbanized plan listing 31 projects with a potential $323 million cost aimed for completion by 2015. Key items include a north-of-College Boulevard four-lane bypass around Niceville, widening several corridors to six lanes, two new four-lane bridges, and a Choctawhatchee Bay bridge, funded by federal state and local sources.
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Fort Walton Beach
MPO
Hurlburt Field
Wright Parkway
White Point
Piney Point
Choctawhatchee Bay
Walton County
Brooks
Destin Pass
Jim DeVries
State Department of Transportation
Peebles
FCSC cites delay causes in South Walton water plan
Florida Community Services Corp. officials blame Walton County Taxpayers Association for nearly six months of delay in a $5.7 million bond project to build a regional water and sewer system. Tanck argues growth projections were overestimated and county ownership will transfer bonds retirement, while stressing county tax dollars are not at risk.
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South Walton
Jim Tanck
Florida Community Services Corp
Walton County
Walton County Taxpayers Association
Tanck
FCSC
Walton
Suc
Development Group Inc
Florida
State Public Service Commission
Tanek
Dolphin dies from shotgun blast in Choctawhatchee Bay
Florida Marine Patrol investigator Larry Jourdan said a 12 gauge shotgun with buckshot killed the bottlenose dolphin at very close range near Destin. The forceful probe has leads, a $500 reward stands, and another dolphin died of lung disease nearby.
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Choctawhatchee Bay
Florida Marine Patrol
Larry Jourdan
Jourdan
FMP
Destin
Santa Rosa Sound
Brooks Bridge
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U.S. 98 East
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Ft. Walton Beach Fairgrounds
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Racetrack Rd
Municipal Golf Course
Racetrack Road
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Southeast Wholesale Furniture Brokers, Inc
Mastercard
Visa