Dec 17, 2014
Santa, Mrs. Claus join zoo animals for light display
CRESTVIEW — The Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge Zoological Park's first Zoobilee of Lights, including appearances by Santa and Mrs. Claus, continues Dec. 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23.
Dec 17, 2014
'Best Christmas gift': Mother of 4 receives keys to Habitat for Humanity home (VIDEO)
CRESTVIEW — A year ago, when ChanDrieka Robinson received her qualification letter from Okaloosa County Habitat for Humanity, it “was the best Christmas gift ever,” she said. This year she got an eve…
Dec 17, 2014
'12 Days of Giving' planned this month
This holiday season share your power and give the gift of life by donating blood.
Dec 17, 2014
'THE KILLING NEEDS TO STOP': NAACP mulls march downtown this weekend
CRESTVIEW — The NAACP's Okaloosa County branch wants to send a message to Crestview area residents: that black people's lives matter.
Dec 15, 2014
Okaloosa EMS taking patients home for the holidays
CRESTVIEW — Okaloosa skilled nursing and adult congregate living patients can visit family members for the holidays at no charge.
Dec 15, 2014
Free Christmas meals available for North Okaloosa's needy
CRESTVIEW — The AMVETS, Ladies Auxiliary, Sons of AMVETS and AMVETS Riders will deliver free Christmas dinners to local residents.
Dec 15, 2014
CHECK IT OUT: Tell your library story
Libraries are essential to the communities they serve. Yet many times we hear reporting that they’ve become “irrelevant.”
Dec 15, 2014
Run nets $20K for nonprofit serving domestic, sexual violence survivors
DESTIN — Shelter House's 4th Annual Luminaria Run to End Domestic & Sexual Violence raised more than $20,000, according to a spokesperson.
Dec 15, 2014
2 organizations help Children in Crisis
FORT WALTON BEACH — Okaloosa foster children will be warm and comfortable this winter following the Silver Threads Quilt Guild's recent donations to Children in Crisis.
Dec 15, 2014
I AM WHERE? (In "Grandma's attic")
The Commodores sang about it, and so did Hillsong, though neither of their songs was about the kind of “Still” I’m looking at, a relic of North Okaloosa’s colorful early 20th-century history.