Crestview – We’re catching up on the last couple weeks of local history. This week we take a look at the local technological innovation that in about 35 years would lead to Crestview teenagers staying up all night gabbing with friends: the telephone.
Big-hearted physicians from North Okaloosa Medical Center donated $6,000 to the Crestview Area Shelter for the Homeless this morning in celebration of National Doctor’s Day.
For the second year in a row a Crestview High School student in the Building Trades program has won the Robert and Amy Harper Scholarship awarded by the Home Builders Institute.
At 6 p.m. Tuesday in Baker, District 3 Okaloosa County Commissioner Nathan Boyles will host a public town hall meeting about the ongoing North Okaloosa Planning Study.
The meeting will be held at Baker School gymnasium, 1369 14th St.
Baker resident Liz Bears quickly peeled stickers from pages and gave them to scores of north Okaloosa County area residents and other folks who filed past her at the Crestview Community Center on Wednesday evening.
The message on the stickers read, “Stop North Okaloosa Run Away Growth.”
The history, heroism, excitement, and drama of World War II’s European Theatre of Operations unfold once again in Spanish Trail Park as the “Race to the Rhein” reenactment returns Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6.
First, the good news: Without any significant weather delays, the four lanes of the newly expanded P.J. Adams Parkway between State Road 85 and Wild Horse Drive should be fully paved and open to traffic by April 8, Okaloosa County Public Works Director Jason Autrey said on Tuesday.
