What can you do to help? I have received numerous phone calls and emails from people who love our area asking how they can help. While there have been many organizations from across the Country working tirelessly and selflessly since Hurricane Michael hit, two that I have witnessed first hand are the South Gulf County Read More
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This is the Best Place to Invest in a Vacation Home.
By Leia Klingel Published August 07, 2018 LuxuryFOXBusiness Real estate investors looking at vacation destinations for rental investment properties could be best off focusing their search in Florida. Vacasa, which offers professional rental management for vacation homes, ranked the top 25 U.S. vacation rental markets, ranked according to capitalization rate, which is the rate of return on a real Read More
Property Values Continue Growth Spurt
By Tim Croft / The Port St. Joe Star | 850-227-7827 / @PSJ_Star | tcroft@starfl.com Posted Jul 5, 2018 at 1:01 AM For the fifth consecutive year county property values continued to climb, jumping 8.4 percent year over year. Property Appraiser Mitch Burke submitted the 2018 preliminary tax roll to the Florida Department of Revenue last Thursday. In effect, Read More
Gulf County Scallop Season August 17 – September 30
NEWS HERALD KATIE LANDECK Scalloping in Franklin County starts July 1, while Gulf County waits until Aug. 17. Port St. Joe — A pilot FWC program to stagger the scallop season in response to public comments has kicked off scalloping in some parts of the state, while Northwest Florida waits for its scallops to get Read More
Explore Gulf County Florida…One of the State’s Best Beaches
Amy Aumick Correspondent Cape San Blas is a strip of Florida beauty near Port Saint Joe that is home to St. Joseph Peninsula State Park, once named the best beach in America by beach connoisseur Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman, aka “Dr. Beach.” Separating St. Joseph Bay to the north from the Gulf Of Mexico to Read More
Volunteers assisting in FWC Scallop Repopulation
PANAMA CITY, Fla. – A red tide in 2015 wiped out much of Port St. Joe’s scallop population. Years later, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is still trying to re-populate the bays with scallops. On Sunday, volunteers took the first step in a new effort to bring scallops back to our area. The every-day Floridians are soon-to-be scallop Read More
Cape San Blas among 11 Most Popular Small Town Destinations
By Tim Croft / The Port St. Joe | 850-227-7827 / @PSJ_Star | tcroft@starfl.com Posted Apr 12, 2018 at 1:00 AMUpdated Apr 12, 2018 at 1:36 PM Others include Miramar Beach, Islamorada and Sanibel Island Within the general realm of understatement, most visitors and residents would surely agree with a list that puts Cape San Blas near the top among vacation destinations. FloridaRentals.com, a Read More
Update on FEMA Flood Maps
By Tim Croft / The Port St. Joe Star | 850-227-7827 / @PSJ_Star | tcroft@starfl.com Posted Apr 12, 2018 at 1:01 AM New data in hand, analysis to come Sometimes persnickety pays. That is the hope for county officials as new data arrives to assess the accuracy of preliminary FEMA flood maps which were first released in 2016. Those Read More
New Dates for Scallop Season for 2018
Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission Announces Bay Scallop Seasons by WJHG Posted: Friday, February 9, 2018 at 3:58PM EST Tallahassee, Fla. – At its February meeting in Tallahassee, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) approved bay scallop open season dates for 2018. The following regionally-specific bay scallop open seasons will be created by Read More
Massive turtle release at Cape San Blas
By KATIE LANDECK News Herald Reporter Posted Jan 20, 2018 at 6:57 PMUpdated Jan 20, 2018 at 7:20 PM The hundreds of formerly cold-stunned turtles came faster than the spellbound kids gathered for their release could name them. PORT ST. JOE — At first, a small group of children tried to come up with a name for each of the 300-plus sea turtles workers and Read More