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DeFUNIAK SPRINGS Northwest Florida State College has taken a more hands-on approach to its Chautauqua Center.
The college remodeled two buildings on the DeFuniak Springs campus and transformed them into the Walton Works Training Center of Excellence, which hosts 10 new workforce-ready programs. Among them are law enforcement, fire academy, emergency medical technician, paramedic, cybersecurity, drone technology, electrical welding, construction and HVAC.
Michael Erny, the dean of career education, said the programming began in January.
“We think this will be a game changer for that area, bringing these programs and bringing this life and activity to the campus that wasn’t serving the work force directly for so long,” Erny said. “Now we’re able to provide that. We’re really in position to make a difference with the local work force.”
DeFUNIAK SPRINGS In a narrow Tuesday vote, Walton County commissioners turned back a Gulf Power proposal to build a solar energy generation facility on almost 900 acres in the northern part of the county.
Commissioners voted 3-2 against an application for a development order for the project, planned for 868 acres between and around Harrison Road and Brown Road, three miles east of U.S. Highway 331 at State Road 2A.
The Chautauqua Solar Energy Center was planned as a 74.5-megawatt generation facility, which kept it under the 75-megawatt generation capacity that would have subjected it to the state licensing process under the Power Plant Siting Act. A megawatt of electricity is enough to power the average family home for a little more than a month.