Cat lovers united this past weekend for the Destiny Cat Fanciers Beauty & the Beach cat show at the Emerald Coast Convention Center, where felines of every kind competed for top honors.
Just before the last session of prayer chaplain training, one of the Rev. Debra Bissell’s students called to cancel. Bissell learned that the woman had just lost her pet and she was too upset to attend class.
For 2 ½ years, Nicole Gunter wanted backyard chickens. After learning about the 4-H Club in Milton at the Santa Rosa County Fair, she started raising chickens and a year later her backyard pets won Best of Show and Best in Breed at the fair.
At 4 feet, 11 inches and closing in on her 40th birthday, Sonya Alford might not seem like your typical Tough Mudder athlete. But watch her flip a tire or jump over a box and you’ll immediately change your mind.
Marvin Lyon, 75, a snowbird who was spending the season with his wife on Navarre Beach, died Feb. 26 after he was transported to Gulf Breeze Hospital from the pier.
When she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011, Jan Stephens Harris and her friend Joyce Cox went on a mission spreading awareness to anyone who would listen.