DAYTONA BEACH Big changes could be coming to the Daytona Beach Pier, the historic building that sits atop the wooden span and Breakers Oceanfront Park.
An artificial reef could even be constructed a short distance off shore to improve surfing and calm waves that batter the nearly 100-year iconic pier.
The city will pay a West Palm Beach firm $173,720 to study the feasibility and costs of several possible changes. The firm will explore constructing a new pier, bolstering the existing 740-foot-long span, making an addition to the city-owned structure, renovating the building that houses Joe s Crab Shack and establishing new uses of the park that overlooks the beach. City commissioners decided at their meeting Wednesday night to hire the Wantman Group to tackle all of that.
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PANAMA CITY BEACH The eighth annual Americana Music Concert Series in the Lodge at Camp Helen State Park will experience a new first in 2021 by going online.
The free Saturday night concert series begins Jan. 16, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., and will continue Jan. 30, Feb. 13 and 27, and March 13 with some of the best American Roots musicians touring the country today. This year, all of the concerts will be online at Facebook.com/friendsofcamphelen.
The concert series is hosted by Lucky Mud and sponsored by Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection and the Friends of Camp Helen State Park.
The first show kicks off Jan. 16 with smooth music from prolific singer/songwriter Rupert Wates of London, England. The legendary Brian Smalley will perform Jan. 30. His knack for story telling is featured on his “acoustic novel” CDs as in, “Chickens Pigs,” “Key” and his latest “Chosen.
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In 2020, we were consumed with news of the pandemic, politics and protests; however, our environmental problems did not go away. Tania Ortega-Cowan speaks with Eve Samples of Friends of the Everglades and Ken Grudens of the
Indian River Land Trust to get a status report on our waterways.
We’ve had our fill of toxic blue-green algae and red tide here on the Treasure Coast. Keeping our waterways clean is critical to our personal health, and Florida’s economy. On Monday, we checked in with two local experts for a status report.
ES: I’m Eve Samples and I’m the Executive Director of Friends of the Everglades.