Community Archive

At Monday’s Crestview City Council meeting, Michael Cadenhead, owner of Cadenhead Pest Control, and Southside Primary School Principal Amy Bowles were announced as the king and queen of Crestview’s 2026 Mardi Gras Parade and Festival, which will take place on Jan. 31, 2026.

The late Kadance Fredericksen’s favorite book, “Where the Crawdads Sing,” includes the powerful message that there is always hope, even in the darkest days, her father, Matthew Fredericksen, told hundreds of people who gathered today in the Baker School multipurpose building to celebrate her life and legacy.

Informational booths set up by community organizations, free food, and live music by Josh Davis will help highlight the Crestview Police Department’s 6th Annual CommUnity Flashlight Walk.

The nonprofit Friends of the Crestview Library volunteer group has two main goals for its annual and highly popular book sale.

According to unofficial data, a total of 130 homeless people were counted during the recent annual Point-in-Time Count conducted by officials and volunteers at the nonprofit Crestview Area Shelter for the Homeless.

The actual total number of homeless people in Crestview, however, is much higher. Based on various shelter data, the total is about 540, shelter Assistant Director Neil Johnson said on Feb. 7.

Okaloosa County is taking another big step toward completing upgrades to county-maintained dirt roads.

Recreational and commercial blue crab traps in all waters from Franklin County to the Florida/Alabama state line must be removed from the water before Jan. 5, the first day of a 10-day trap closure. This closure will give groups authorized by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) the opportunity to identify and retrieve lost and abandoned blue crab traps from the water.

Lulu Gribbin, a 15-year-old shark attack survivor, came back to the Emerald Coast to meet some of the people who helped save her life this past June.

As recently as 2021, 12.3% of children in Okaloosa County were faced with food insecurity.

Shana Lawson is hoping to change that.

The contractor for Crestview’s $5.7 million Main Street renovation project aims to have it completed before Christmas, according to city officials.