Tony Vance is bringing the Mardi Gras experience to the Hub City on Dec. 2.
That’s when his fun-loving, big-hearted and Pensacola-based Krewe of Cheers social club will participate in the Crestview Christmas Parade.
The Okaloosa County Commission voted 4-0 today in favor of a plan to buy the former Beach Bank property in south Crestview and convert the site’s vacant, one-story building into a “north tourism adventure center.”
The Texas Roadhouse restaurant that’s being built just northwest of the Interstate 10 interchange in Crestview is expected to open in the late spring or early summer of 2024, a Texas Roadhouse spokesperson said today.
Just in time for one-of-a-kind Christmas gift shopping, the next Bush House Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, to coincide with the Crestview History Museum’s monthly Second Saturday Series opening.
Crestview resident Harold Lavern Benedict, 73, recently was sentenced to 19 1/2 years in federal prison for receipt and attempted receipt of child pornography.
At the Okaloosa County School Board’s annual organizational meeting on Nov. 13, the board unanimously agreed to have District 1 Board Member Lamar White serve as the board’s new chairman. District 5 Board Member Diane Kelly had served as chairman for the past year.
Construction of the city of Crestview’s almost $2 million septic-to-sewer conversion project to address failing septic tanks at the Foxwood Estates subdivision should be ready to get underway after the first of the year, according to City Manager Tim Bolduc.
Christopher Kyle Wright, 38, of 649 Lincoln Ave., DeFuniak Springs, faces charges of trafficking in fentanyl after a traffic stop in Walton County.
On the evening of Nov. 14, a Walton County Sheriff’s Office Deputy conducted a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 90 in DeFuniak Springs for a registration not matching the vehicle’s description.
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Trevor Valentine, who rescued a mother and child who were being brutally attacked by a pair of dogs in Crestview last December, was publicly recognized for his heroic life-saving efforts by Crestview City Councilman Doug Capps at the Nov. 13 council meeting.
Crestview resident Anthony Michael Gabriel, 32, was recently sentenced to mandatory life in prison, plus an additional 15 years in prison to be served consecutively to his life sentence, after an Okaloosa County jury found him guilty as charged of armed burglary of a dwelling with a firearm and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
