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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.

Jessica Leavins, who will mark her sixth year of employment with the city of Crestview in June, is the city’s first-ever deputy city manager.

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.

Okaloosa County, in partnership with Jacobs Engineering, invites residents to the second public meeting for the Vulnerability Assessment Project.

Okaloosa County officials plan to soon make additional progress on the county’s overall dirt road stabilization improvement project, which aims to improve driver safety, reduce erosion, and lower recurring maintenance costs.

Hurlburt Field – Hurlburt Field cagers knocked down 16 free throws in the fourth quarter Jan. 10 to top Eglin 76-68 in men’s basketball action in Aderholt Fitness Center.

The Gulf Coast rivalry game tipped off a weekend tournament where four military squads clashed, including teams from Fort Knox, Kentucky, and Scott AFB, Illinois. The loss was Eglin’s only blemish in a three-game Military Basketball Association round-robin schedule.

Crestview Police Chief Steve McCosker’s top concerns about Winter Storm Enzo are the same today as they were when the monumental fall of white flakes first blanketed the city and region on Tuesday.