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The Crestview City Council on July 8 unanimously approved a five-year lease and service agreement with the Woodburn, Indiana-based Safe Haven Baby Boxes nonprofit organization to provide a baby box in the Hub City.

The Okaloosa County Commission on June 4 approved allocating $1.5 million in county half-cent sales tax reserves toward the estimated $2.5 million construction cost of a traffic management center.

On May 3, then-Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Eddie Lee Duran Jr. fatally shot 23-year-old U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson at Fortson’s residence at the Chez Elan Apartments on Racetrack Road in Ocean City.

Two proposed shopping centers are in different stages of development north of U.S. Highway 90 in Crestview, City Manager Tim Bolduc said at the April 4 Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce Networking Breakfast at the city Community Center.

Lifetime Crestview resident J.T. Garrett, who enjoyed impersonating “Barney Fife” from “The Andy Griffith Show” and once had a real brush with Hollywood fame, died on March 3 at age 96.

Camping, walking and horseback riding trails, archery, and kayaking and canoeing on the Shoal River are some of the potential features and uses of an approximately 412-acre, Dorcas-area property the Okaloosa County Commission approved buying in February.

A federally funded Older Americans Act grant took effect in January and allowed the nonprofit Elder Services of Okaloosa County home health care agency to provide more services for the next six years.

New or proposed residential construction continued to dominate the scene on Okaloosa County’s north end, which has much more undeveloped land than the south end.