Category Archives: Alys Beach News

Digital Graffiti hostess INDIA HICKS enjoyed her time at Alys Beach so much in June that she returned here last week to spend a relaxing week-long vacation with her husband, David Flint Wood, and their four children. While here, the family enjoyed everything from wakeboarding lessons to YOLO boarding to parasailing to pottery making to art classes at Studio B to tennis […]

Another custom Alys Beach home has captured a national architectural award, this time from a field of over 1,100 competing entries. Currently in its tenth year, the Residential Architect Design Awards (RADA) is the most prestigious and competitive residential architecture awards program in the country, with only 10 “Grand Awards” being awarded this year. The winning Alys […]

Five gentle whale sharks appeared just offshore from Grayton Beach last week. They remained in our local waters for two days. Many of the people chartering the Grayton Beach fishing boats and one group of divers were able to photograph and swim with the whales during the two-day event. A whale shark is not a […]

Did you see the article in last week’s The New York Times article entitled “White Roofs Catch On as Energy Cost Cutters” by Felicity Barringer? According to the article, “studies show that white roofs reduce air-conditioning costs by 20 percent or more in hot, sunny weather” and “lower energy consumption also means fewer of the carbon dioxide emissions that […]

McCaskill & Company recently announced that nearly $15,000 was raised through their “Wag & Win” Rolex Giveaway to benefit Alaqua Animal Refuge, a local non-profit organization that provides shelter and adoption services for animals. Alys Beach resident George Hartley (owner of Seagrove Village Market Café, George’s at Alys Beach, and the new Mi Cocina in Seacrest) won the raffle and the rare $10,000 Rolex Cosmograph Daytona […]

Alys Beach residents Winston and Martha Wilkinson recently presented our community with a very special gift: A gorgeous antique billiards table. “They just said ‘here you go’ out of the blue,” said Alys Beach’s Town Founder, Jason Comer. “It’s the sort of generosity that one could only imagine.” Antique enthusiasts and experts, the Wilkinsons originally purchased the […]

What’s Studio b, you ask, because you’re simply waaaaaaay too busy to visit their cool website? Well, I could tell you, but I couldn’t possibly do any better job of explaining Studio b’s unique concept than the company’s Founder and Chief Creative Guru Gal, Colleen Duffley. She and her new business are the focus of one of VIE tv’s new video segments. CHECK IT OUT:

The team at VIE people+places magazine (and now VIE tv too!) produced a really nice recap of the 2009 Digital Graffiti festival, which was held here in Alys Beach on Saturday, June 6th. Click here to view the 5-minute video. (Here’s a fun bonus game, kids: Count how many times I nervously utter the word “actually”…) For more information about Digital Graffiti, check […]

Alys Beach recently marked an important milestone with the release of our very first Gulf-front home lots. Only three beachfront lots were made available, and the first two lots sold almost immediately. Plus, those sales also included agreements to build Alys Beach’s very first custom Gulf-front homes! “Most of our development to-date has taken place […]

Special congrats and thanks to Bill Musso and Bryan Cooke for the great article about them in the new issue of Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles magazine. The article includes the story of how they first discovered Alys Beach, as well as some beautiful photos and quotes, such as this one: “(Alys Beach) is quickly becoming the ultimate getaway for discriminating Atlantans.” and “A […]