A group of 15 students and teachers from middle and high schools in north Okaloosa County went on a behind-the-scenes tour of several local businesses on Friday.
Two proposed shopping centers are in different stages of development north of U.S. Highway 90 in Crestview, City Manager Tim Bolduc said at today’s Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce Networking Breakfast at the city Community Center.
Baker resident Liz Bears quickly peeled stickers from pages and gave them to scores of north Okaloosa County area residents and other folks who filed past her at the Crestview Community Center on Wednesday evening.
The message on the stickers read, “Stop North Okaloosa Run Away Growth.”
One reads, “Jesus Loves You,” with the shape of a heart representing the “o” in “Loves.”
Another pays tribute to “Mable Edge, Coney Island Icon, ‘What Fer Ya.’”
And another honors “Nicholai Jewett, 06-25-1981-07-02-2008, A Proud Soldier for his Country & the Lord, rest in God’s peace.”
Gigapower, a joint venture between AT&T and BlackRock, announced today an expansion of its state-of-the-art fiber optics network to Crestview, providing in-demand quality broadband connectivity to the community.
Okaloosa County officials on Tuesday issued a stop-work order for Florida Power & Light’s planned Kayak Solar Energy Center project after discovering recent heavy rains had washed large amounts of sediment from the project site into adjacent waterways.
Crestview’s nearly $5.7 million Main Street renovation project is “going to be a great improvement, not just aesthetically, but safety-wise, too,” Mayor J.B. Whitten said at the project’s groundbreaking ceremony.
The nearly $5.7 million Main Street renovation project that begins on Monday is anticipated to be completed in late May of 2025, Crestview City Manager Tim Bolduc told more than two dozen downtown business owners on Thursday evening.
