Signs at the gate of the 7th Special Forces Group compound just south of Crestview contain truths of the Special Operations Forces, retired United States Army Lt. Col. Dan Keener said at this morning’s Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce Military Appreciation Breakfast.
Leading up to Thanksgiving, a total of about 20,000 pounds of free produce and other free food will be distributed to at least 250 families at the Farm-City Week 2025 food distribution event on Friday, Nov. 21 in Crestview.
Looking ahead, the Dorcas Fire District is “going to be an exemplary fire service for others to follow,” fire service veteran Charles “Chuck” Cooper told the Okaloosa County Commission this morning.
Roy K. Semone, 63, of the 4700 block of Balboa Road near central Crestview, was served with a warrant and arrested on Friday on two counts of possession of child pornography and 30 counts of possession of film or image of sexual contact between a person and an animal (bestiality).
Okaloosa County School District Superintendent Marcus Chambers and District 4 School Board member Tim Bryant recently helped Davidson Middle School celebrate its “A” school grade for the 2024-2025 school year.
Crestview-area residents Brian and Kim Johnson continue to rely on their children, neighbors and other community members to help them recover from a fire that recently destroyed the house they called home for 18 years.
The establishment of Williams International’s huge manufacturing facility at the Shoal River Industrial Park near Crestview represents an opportunity “for Northwest Florida to expand and deepen and diversify our aerospace economy with hundreds of new, high-paying jobs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in new economic impact, and a world-class partner,” state Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, told more than 150 people at today’s groundbreaking ceremony for the new facility.
