Fifty-seven-year-old fugitive Jeffrey Todd Wagner, of Laurel Hill, was apprehended in Crestview on Wednesday by members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Section.
Tulip poplar, pecan, white oak, common persimmon, and crape myrtle were among the species of trees given away to attendees of this morning’s Crestview Arbor Day Celebration.
An information-gathering and fact-finding team chaired by Okaloosa County District 1 Commissioner Paul Mixon will help locate potential sites for a new county jail.
Okaloosa County’s planned realignment of Okaloosa Lane, which will allow for a straight connection between U.S. Highway 90 and East Redstone Avenue, is now funded.
Officials with Pensacola-based PenAir Credit Union, which has nearly $3 billion in assets and serves customers from Mobile, Alabama to Tallahassee, plan to open a Crestview branch in early 2025.
Okaloosa County officials plan to ask Eglin Air Force Base leaders to reopen the East Pass beach, next to the Marler Bridge by Destin, and allow the county to manage it.
On Tuesday, the County Commission agreed to have board Chairman Paul Mixon send a letter of intent about the county’s overall proposal to Eglin officials.
Crestview resident Estelle Felgenhauer Day received an early birthday present from the Okaloosa County Commission on Tuesday.
That’s when the board approved a proclamation declaring Jan. 29, 2024, as “Estelle Felgenhauer Day” in Okaloosa County to commemorate her 95th birthday and extraordinary life.
For a casual and picturesque forest walk, visit the Bone Creek Recreation Area north of Holt and U.S. Highway 90.
This Florida Forest Service-managed day use rec area is at 4915 Bone Creek Road and part of the Blackwater River State Forest.
With temperatures dropping to 30-degree weather, a local Crestview man, the American Legion, the Okaloosa County Jail and the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, banded together to provide homeless with warmth.
For a city that’s officially only 108 years old (there were settlements all around the Crestview area long before the official chartering of the city), Crestview sure has a lot of fascinating history. Here’s what happened in our past, starting with the new year. Watch for a new history lesson each week.
