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A lot can happen in a couple of days. On March 27, a group of residents who lived around Shortwell Avenue attended the Crestview City Council meeting to discuss the deplorable living conditions in their neighborhood brought on by one problem residence where they owner had passed away and squatters had begun living there.

The City of Crestview’s third annual Keep Crestview Beautiful kicked off last week and runs through April 26. The two-week event is designed to encourage the residents to help clean up the community with large dumpsters set up around the city to make sure the trash is properly disposed of. Keep Crestview Beautiful kicked off April 12 with dozens of city employees volunteering to help clean up two properties that had fallen out of compliance with city code.

The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of single-engine plane crash Friday afternoon near Bob Sikes Airport.

Neighbors who live near the site of a new proposed solar energy center recently got their first good look at the possible project. A new Florida Power & Light solar energy center which would be located a few miles west of Crestview and just south of Interstate 10 is in the early permitting stages. FPL representatives invited the nearby neighbors to an open house on April 6 to discuss the project.

The Okaloosa County School District and the Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation will present the 2023 Okaloosa County K-12 Student Art Show on April 19-20 at the C.H. “Bull” Rigdon Fairgrounds in Fort Walton Beach.

There are many remarkable stories of fortitude, bravery and triumph that have come out of World War II. As a young boy, Rudy Timmerman lived one of those stories.

Timmerman will share his saga of survival at the Crestview Public Library Friday, April 21.

The City of Crestview is a growing community. But its growth isn’t just fueled by people moving into the city limits of the Hub City.

In recent years, the city leadership has made annexing property into the city limits, and growing the boundaries of the city, a priority. Soon after being hired as Crestview’s first city manager in February 2019, Tim Bolduc worked with the City Council to get a moratorium on annexation fees approved. The moratorium has been renewed every six months since then.

The right lane of I-10 eastbound, between mile markers 52 and 53 in Crestview, will be closed from 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 19 until 6 a.m. Thursday, April 20. Crews will temporarily shift I-10 eastbound traffic slightly to the south, onto the newly constructed travel lanes, so that work may continue on the new I-10/Antioch Road interchange. The speed limit on this segment of I-10 will remain 60 mph.

You’re going about your day, working, exercising or spending time with family, when all of a sudden you feel a sharp, stabbing pain in your abdomen. You’ve been nauseated and haven’t had much of an appetite all day.

If you’ve ever felt this way, don’t just dismiss it as something simple as overeating. These are all signs that you have appendicitis or inflammation of the appendix.

The state Public Service Commission has approved a plan that will provide a break to Florida Power & Light customers because of lower-than-expected natural gas prices. The plan, which the commission unanimously supported without discussion, will reduce customers’ monthly bills starting in May — and partially offset increases that took effect in April.