The early morning update on Potential Cyclone Nine, expected to form into Hurricane Ilene in the days ahead, shrunk the cone of uncertainty, leaving the center of the storm far east of Okaloosa County.
CHELCO CEO Steve Rhodes was recently recognized by Northwest Florida State College Foundation 2023-24 Board Chair Alan Wood as the recipient of the Chairman’s Award.
The forecast cone is currently showing projected landfall in the area of Apalachicola, near Florida’s big bend.
The National Hurricane Center said in its 10 AM CT update that the disturbance is projected to strengthen near hurricane strength when it reaches the far northwestern Caribbean Sea on Tuesday night. The storm will then intensify while it moves northward over the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Eglin Air Force Base — “Anyone who’s been stationed or worked at Eglin and spent time in the Fort Walton Beach area knows, it’s a place that always feels like home.”
This week’s Hometown History is a glimpse at one of Crestview’s most colorful and resourceful politicians, Robert Lee Fulton Sikes, who died Sept. 28, 1994, and whose name graces local public facilities including the airport, the public library, an elementary school, a road in east Crestview, and the local campus of Northwest Florida State College.
A contract with J&P Construction Co. Inc., of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to build the almost $41.6 million Shoal River Ranch Water Reclamation Facility was unanimously approved by the Okaloosa County Commission on Tuesday.
Baker resident Keri Pitzer, who came in second place in the August primary election’s tight District 3 Okaloosa County Commissioner race, has started a new role.
At its public hearing on Tuesday in Shalimar, the Okaloosa County Commission unanimously agreed to adopt the final countywide tax rate and final budget for fiscal year 2025.
The $6 million purchase of almost 300 acres of land in Baker for tourism and community recreational purposes received the Okaloosa County Commission’s unanimous approval Tuesday.
