Recycling Main Street
Numerous items that have been and will be removed during Crestview’s Main Street renovation project are getting new homes.
Gardner out as Baker football coach
With the start of spring football practice less than two weeks away on April 29, Baker School Principal Mike Martello announced Thursday that Barry Gardner is no longer the Gator head football coach.
Resource Center to provide a plethora of services
The Crestview Resource Center, which among other types of assistance will provide legal services, veteran services, HIV testing and counseling, and training in financial literacy, job readiness, and basic computer skills, is about to open.
New welcome center is a work in progress
Both tourists and locals have been checking out the recently opened Crestview Welcome and Adventure Center.
Legion leader: ‘We’re more than just cheap drinks’
From fighting for veterans’ rights to hosting dinners, live music shows and other events that are open to the public, the Oscar E. Wilson American Legion Post 75 in Crestview is a force to be reckoned with.
859th SOS, TFI partners reach milestone in Wolfhound
Duke Field – Aviators and aircraft maintainers who support the C-146A Wolfhound mission celebrated a major milestone April 5, 2024, surpassing 200,000 flying hours while meeting Air Force Special Operations Command’s global mobility requirements.
Ponder announces he won’t seek re-election
Mel Ponder, a Republican who was elected to his current four-year term as the District 5 Okaloosa County Commissioner in November 2020, doesn’t plan to run for re-election this fall.
County plans to stabilize more dirt roads
Okaloosa County is nearing the end of stabilizing a total of about 200 miles worth of sandy/clay dirt roads on the county’s north end.
County cracks down on large beach holes
Hoping to prevent tragedies that have occurred elsewhere in Florida and other states, a majority of the Okaloosa County Commission today approved an ordinance that limits the size of holes that people can dig on county-owned public beaches.
New MSCA director is ‘a nonprofit junkie’
Ahleshia Elliott, who began working for the nonprofit Main Street Crestview Association as its office assistant last September and then as its event coordinator around the start of this year, became the MSCA’s executive director on March 29.















