We may be nearing the end of the year, but for more than a dozen local students, Sunday was the start of a new beginning.

Florida State University Panama City held it's fall graduation ceremony Sunday afternoon.

FSU PC Dean Ken Shaw presided over the ceremony and the keynot speaker was Nicole Barfield, a 1996 graduate of FSU PC and publisher of a newspaper out of Washington County.

Graduates Sunday received diplomas ranging from Bachelor of Science in Law Enforcement Operations to Bachelor of Science in Accounting.