Thousands of fans of blues, brews, and barbecue are about to take over downtown Crestview.
The 20th Annual Triple B festival is set for 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 23.
United States Attorney Roger Handberg on Tuesday announced a grand jury indictment charging Marcus Pratt, a 38-year-old prisoner at the Okaloosa Correctional Institution near Crestview, with three counts of mailing threatening communications and three counts of influencing, impeding, or retaliating against a federal judge.
Lifetime Crestview resident J.T. Garrett, who enjoyed impersonating “Barney Fife” from “The Andy Griffith Show” and once had a real brush with Hollywood fame, died on March 3 at age 96.
Okaloosa County’s new Crestview Welcome + Adventure Center, located in the former Beach Bank building in south Crestview, is scheduled for a soft opening in early April.
By late December, Okaloosa County officials expect to have the results of a North Okaloosa Planning Study that’s expected to help guide growth in the unincorporated area north of the Eglin Air Force Base Reservation.
On March 8, 1857, female textile workers marched the streets of New York City in the first organized strike to protest unfair working conditions and unequal rights for women. 53 years later, in 1910, March 8 became International Women’s Day.
Nathaniel Parker, 43, of 205 Cabana Way, Crestview, was arrested on Saturday on charges of trafficking in fentanyl, possession of cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving with a suspended license, second or subsequent offense, and resisting an officer.
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.
