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The Walton County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents about a phone scam in which a caller posed as a real WCSO sergeant, claimed the victim had missed federal grand jury duty, and demanded $10,000 in cash to clear two bogus bench warrants.
The Freeport City Council awarded a contract worth just over $1.09 million to finish the Business 331 sidewalk extension and approved a $183,790 change order for a state-required monitoring well at the CR-3280 water well site during its regular meeting Thursday night, September 24, at City Hall. The council also adopted a rezoning on US 331 South, signed off on new CHELCO street lighting estimates, and joined a regional estuary program’s steering council.
Fire chiefs, sheriffs and emergency services leaders across Walton County are urging caution on Amendment 3, the property tax overhaul Florida voters will decide in November, warning that the revenue that keeps firefighters, paramedics and deputies ready to respond in Freeport could be on the line.
The Freeport City Council gave final approval to a $114 million budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year at a brief public hearing Tuesday, adopting the spending plan without a single word of public comment. The council also locked in the city’s property tax rate for another year, holding it at 4.7302 mills.
Hunters, anglers and campers in Freeport are in the middle of a four-month window to buy their gear sales-tax-free: Florida’s 2026 Hunting, Fishing and Camping Sales Tax Holiday began September 1 and runs through Thursday, December 31.
The Freeport City Council approved next year’s meeting calendar, awarded engineering work on two capital projects, renewed the city’s insurance, and took up a congestion fix for the busy Business 331 and Highway 20 intersection during its regular meeting Tuesday morning, September 8, at City Hall.
The Freeport City Council will hold the first of two required public hearings on its fiscal year 2026-27 budget Tuesday, Sept. 9, at 5:01 PM in the Council Chambers at Freeport City Hall, 112 Highway 20 West.
The Walton County Planning Commission will hold its next regular meeting on Thursday, September 10, 2026, at 4:00 PM at the Freeport Board Room, located at 842 State Highway 20 East in Freeport.
The Walton County Board of County Commissioners will meet Tuesday, September 8, 2026, at 1:00 p.m. at the DeFuniak Springs BCC Boardroom, 571 US Highway 90 East, where the board is scheduled to formally adopt the county’s 2027-2032 Strategic Plan.
City of Freeport offices will close Monday, September 7, in observance of Labor Day, with normal operations resuming Tuesday, September 8 at 8 a.m.
