News Archive

It’s fine that some people elsewhere spent this year’s Juneteenth holiday enjoying barbecues and basketball tournaments, local educator Vaneesa Harrington said. “But it’s important to put the educational aspect in this event,” Harrington, the assistant principal of Richbourg School and a member of Crestview’s Juneteenth Committee, said on June 19 at the Hub City’s second-annual Juneteenth Celebration.

A $6.7 million project to mill and resurface a five-mile segment of State Road 85 from north of Commerce Drive in Crestview to Bill Lundy Road will begin in late June, Florida Department of Transportation officials said in a news release.

Florida’s fiscal year 2023-24 budget signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis on June 15 includes a total of almost $9 million in funding for Okaloosa County projects.

The recent city-hosted Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast included the showing of a video of people talking about their favorite park in Crestview. After the video ended, City Manager Tim Bolduc told attendees of the June 1 breakfast at the Crestview Community Center that his favorite city park “is the next one.”

It’s going to be a busy summer at Woodlawn Baptist Church, located at 824 N. Ferdon Blvd.

The church already held its Vacation Bible School.

This week we reported on the exciting future of the legendary Fox Theatre in downtown Crestview. The vision of the owners is exactly what can create a vibrant downtown community: three full-meu restaurants, a tapas and cocktail bar and a live-music venue.

When the people of Crestview talk, the city government does its best to listen and accommodate the request of the citizens.

One thing people have been talking about across town and the United States is pickleball. As the people of the community made their voices heard desiring pickleball courts, the city responded building two at Blackwater Golf Course.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has confirmed that a road-killed 4.5-year-old female white-tailed deer in Holmes County sampled during routine surveillance activities has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). It is the first known case of CWD in Florida, a contagious disease of the brain and central nervous system that is fatal to deer. The first case of CWD in North America was described in mule deer in Colorado in 1967. Florida is the most recent of 31 states to detect the disease, which also has been confirmed in four Canadian provinces, Finland, Norway, Sweden and South Korea.

LAUREL HILL – Officials from Okaloosa County’s oldest and northernmost city plan to use tourist development tax money to pay for two new welcome signs. The monument-style signs will stand on the north and south ends of the city along State Road 85. Each sign will contain the words, “Welcome to Laurel Hill, Okaloosa County’s oldest city.”

A Celebration of Life to honor James “Jeff” Jeffrey Littrell, the former longtime Okaloosa County Water and Sewer Department director who died from medical complications on June 5, will be held at 11 a.m. June 22 at Emerald Coast Funeral Home.