Community Archive

The problem of substance abuse and addiction is as old as mankind.

For thousands of years humans have sought a way to ease the physical and mental pain associated with life. Others aren’t seeking pain relief but simply a quick “feel good” fix.

Only in its first year, the Crestview High School robotics team is quickly establishing itself as a force to be reckoned with.

Earlier this spring FRC #8788 Special Forces Ballistabots, as the team is known, was named the top rookie team in the Tallahassee region and earned a trip to the world competition in Houston that was held April 18-22.

Mike Landry made the little more than 500-mile trip from Knoxville, Tenn., to Crestview to be a German Captain in battle reenactments at Hail the Heroes at Twin Hills Park over the weekend.

Landry, a 1993 graduate of the University of Tennessee Haslam College of Business, has an important reason for participating.

The city’s Citizens Advisory Council will mark the nation’s annual April 29 Arbor Day with a tree planting at the John McMahon Environmental Center.

The council’s president said that beautifying the city is among the council’s goals.

HAM radios have been around for more than a century. Around the world amateur radio operators of all ages have communicated to those down the street or on another continent thousands of miles away.

Since 1978 the North Okaloosa Amateur Radio Club has been providing local citizens a place to go and grow their contacts and knowledge about radio.

At the end of a dead-end road in Holley, a small community just north of Navarre, the largest known collection of artifacts from the turpentine industry is kept in a tidy clay-colored building behind Raymond Melvin’s home.

Melvin, whose dad, granddads and great-granddads all trace their roots to the industry, started his collection when he was 22. More than 50 years later, it includes more than 1,000 items ranging from tools and scales to cut trees and cups to hold the sap.