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U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz has moved his flagship District Office to Crestview. Gaetz’s Crestview office will occupy part of Northwest Florida State College’s Robert L.F. Sikes Center and is located at 805 East James Lee Boulevard. The flagship office was previously located at Seville Tower in Pensacola.

March typically means Spring Break for Florida colleges and universities, as well as countless other schools across the U.S. Regardless, students are putting down their books and putting on their bathing suits to enjoy a well-deserved vacation. Here are the dates for upcoming spring breaks:

A Crestview teenager is facing attempted murder and other felony charges after allegedly firing a gun multiple times into a vehicle. On Saturday, March 11, Crestview police officers responded to a victim who advised that her vehicle had been shot at while she was at the Bent Creek Apartments in Crestview. The victim was in the vehicle at the time of the incident.

The Crestview Fire Department had a busy 2022, averaging more than 12 calls a day last year. Crestview Fire Chief Anthony Holland recently provided a report on his department’s activities in 2022 to the Crestview City Council. In 2022, the department went on 3,387 EMS calls and 1,106 fire calls, for a total of 4,493 calls.

While the azalea blooms are beautiful, it’s hard to remember what the leaves looked like last summer. But, if you look carefully, you may see some off-colored, bleached out leaves. Those are from a piercing-sucking insect, the azalea lace bug or Stephanitis pyrioides.

Eglin Air Force Base will be holding Archaeology Day Saturday, March 18, at Jackson Guard.

Throughout the year, the Crestview News Bulletin will be conducting Question & Answer profiles on a number of local city leaders.

This week, we reached out to Crestview City Council member Doug Capps. Capps, who is the councilor for Precinct 3, and has been on the board since April 2021.

In partnership with Vision of Hope, Laurel Hill School will host a “Job-a-Palooza” job fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 10 for Okaloosa County Schools District’s ESE (Exceptional Student Education) students in grades 9-12.

If you were asking most people about distracted driving, they may tell you about texting while driving, eating while driving, or about the distractions from passengers.

Recently, people have been talking about a different kind of passenger, thanks in part to a proposed Florida Senate bill that caught headlines around Florida and the nation.

At the District One Medical Examiner Services (DOMES) board’s meeting in December, legislative funding for a new facility was a big topic of concern. Dan Schebler, director of operations for DOMES, proposed taking the interlocal agreement the counties had put to the wayside and bringing it forward to Northwest Florida’s legislators with a $3 million buy-in from each county as had been discussed in July 2022. Over the past couple of months since that meeting, the DOMES board has met monthly to try and hammer out a plan for the upcoming legislative session, which is set to begin March 7. The legislative session is important as DOMES is looking for matching state funding for a proposed facility in Santa Rosa County.