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“Betsy, you were a blessing to the city of Crestview, and you have proven that over and over again,” City Councilman Joe Blocker told outgoing city Community Redevelopment Director Betsy Roy on Monday evening.

Songs such as “All Aboard the Choo-Choo Train” and some history from Crestview’s mayor helped set the scene of the city’s grand-opening ceremony for Wilson Street Park and its train-themed play structure late Monday afternoon.

A deep sense of relief settled over Staff Sgt. Terrance Grasty.

It was April 18, 2018, and Grasty, an Air Force civil engineering non-commissioned officer, worked to break up concrete. In an undisclosed, deployed location in the Middle East, Grasty looked around at the Airmen around him, joking and laughing with one another as they worked.

The early morning update on Potential Cyclone Nine, expected to form into Hurricane Ilene in the days ahead, shrunk the cone of uncertainty, leaving the center of the storm far east of Okaloosa County.

CHELCO CEO Steve Rhodes was recently recognized by Northwest Florida State College Foundation 2023-24 Board Chair Alan Wood as the recipient of the Chairman’s Award.

The forecast cone is currently showing projected landfall in the area of Apalachicola, near Florida’s big bend. The National Hurricane Center said in its 10 AM CT update that the disturbance is projected to strengthen near hurricane strength when it reaches the far northwestern Caribbean Sea on Tuesday night. The storm will then intensify while it moves northward over the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Eglin Air Force Base — “Anyone who’s been stationed or worked at Eglin and spent time in the Fort Walton Beach area knows, it’s a place that always feels like home.”

This week’s Hometown History is a glimpse at one of Crestview’s most colorful and resourceful politicians, Robert Lee Fulton Sikes, who died Sept. 28, 1994, and whose name graces local public facilities including the airport, the public library, an elementary school, a road in east Crestview, and the local campus of Northwest Florida State College.

If the nonprofit Crestview Manor assisted living facility didn’t exist, its 44 current residents would be homeless, Kim Fraley said on Wednesday.

A contract with J&P Construction Co. Inc., of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to build the almost $41.6 million Shoal River Ranch Water Reclamation Facility was unanimously approved by the Okaloosa County Commission on Tuesday.