News Archive

Many accomplishments and achievements have been made in the City of Crestview. The entire team led by the City Council, Mayor JB Whitten and City Manager Tim Bolduc have made the city into a place where families want to raise their children.

We Reign Sickle Cell Corporation will host a community blood drive with the American Red Cross from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 15 at the Crestview Community Center, 1446 Commerce Drive in Crestview.

For more information or to make an appointment to donate, call 850-774-7084 or sign up online at redcrossblood.org with sponsor code WEREIGN.

United Way Emerald Coast’s Women United hosted their first EmpowHER seminar Saturday, April 22, at Crestview High School.

A Shailmar man wearing body armor and armed with a semi-automatic AR-15 and a semi-automatic pistol has been arrested on multiple felony charges after allegedly shooting at a motorist.
Kyle Chapman, 26, of Shalimar, was arrested May 3 on charges of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, firing into a moving vehicle, possession of a bulletproof vest and discharging a firearm in public.

Jeanette Volz says she is allergic to just about every flower there is. But that doesn’t stop her from doing what she loves.
Volz has been in the floral industry for about 20 years. She recently relocated her freelance florist business, JVolzdesigns, from Panama City Beach to a new home studio on JV Woolley Road in Crestview.

The city limits of Crestview continued to grow last week as the City Council voted to approve two additional annexations.
The council gave final approval to two annexation requests at the April 24 board meeting. The council approved an ordinance annexing two separate parcels, a 1-acre lot on Third Avenue and a 22.28-acre lot on Richburg Lane, and approved rezoning the properties as to mixed-use. In a separate ordinance, the board also approved annexing a 2.45-acre parcel on Richburg Lane.

The Daybreak Market/76 gas station at the intersection of Santa Rosa Drive and U.S. Highway 90, just west of East Spencer Field Road, is selling regular gas for $1.76 per gallon until 5 p.m. today. Mark Contos, vice president of the Daybreak Market company, said the store has 31,000 gallons available for the grand-opening special.

A Crestview man has been charged following a lengthy investigation into a fatal accident that happened last December.
Derek Joseph Markheim, 33, of Crestview, was arrested and charged with one count of DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide for a fatal crash that occurred on Dec. 5, 2022.

Nearly 150 people packed the Crestview Public Library meeting room April 21 to hear the story of Holocaust survivor Rudy Timmerman, who described his experiences in a German labor camp in Poland.
They were the first people in 75 years to hear Timmerman’s story.

Life can be hard, and Laurel Hill School students were the first in the county to receive a new hands-on lesson designed to help them get better at budgeting their money in the future.
High school students from Laurel Hill School last week participated in the Reality Check program, designed to simulate what life could be like as an adult. Each student was randomly assigned a fictitious profile that included a career with a monthly income, spouses and children to care for, a credit score and other details.