Edward Mitchell Jr., Crestview’s Citizen of the Year for 2024, received the Charlie Hill Community Service Award on Jan. 16 at the 39th Annual MLK Observance in Fort Walton Beach.
The city of Crestview’s inaugural Mardi Gras Food Truck Friday, which is set for 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7 on Main Street, will warm up revelers for the city’s first-ever Mardi Gras Parade and other celebrations on Saturday, Feb. 8.
A prefabricated, 5-foot-tall, and three-dimensional fiberglass great blue heron dressed as a train conductor is about to make a permanent landing at Crestview’s Wilson Street Park.
By the start of the youth baseball season, and for the first time ever, all five city of Crestview-owned baseball fields will have an electronic scoreboard.
A vandal temporarily defaced a part of the large mural on the side of the Main Street Crestview Association/Crestview Community Redevelopment Agency office building recently.
The firm that oversaw Crestview’s Main Street renovation project will align and make other upgrades to the busy and crooked East Redstone Avenue/Brookmeade Drive intersection, which stands east of the North Okaloosa Medical Center, north of Brookmeade Park and city Fire Station 3, and west of Shoal River Middle School and Riverside Elementary School.
As was the case in other cities in the Florida Panhandle, the city of Crestview was not accustomed to handling tempests like the historic Winter Storm Enzo, Crestview Mayor J.B. Whitten said.
