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On Dec. 17, at least two, and possibly a total of three, new members of the five-member Okaloosa County Commission will cast votes on whether to adopt the final version of the North Okaloosa Planning Study report.

The Florida Department of Transportation does not have an estimated timeline on when the final layer of asphalt will be added to the left-hand turn lane for northbound State Road 85 motorists going to the Crestview Commons, FDOT District 3 spokesman Ian Satter said today.

The revised design of a mural for the back side of Crestview’s archway sign on North Main Street received the city Community Redevelopment Agency Board’s approval on Monday.

A decision by the Crestview City Council on Monday will lead to more affordable housing in the Hub City and more money in the city’s coffers.

DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. — An HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, tail number A6224, maintained by U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Anthony Staley, 943rd Maintenance Squadron crew chief, and Senior Airman Harley Straps, 943rd MXS assistant crew chief, achieved a “black letter status” before its retirement at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., May 6, 2024.

Electric vehicle (EV) sales in the United States have skyrocketed since their emergence on the market in the 2010s. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, which is under the direction of the Department of Transportation, from 2018 to 2021, EV sales doubled. In the years since, EV sales have continued to go up. In 2023, 1.6 million were sold, a 60% increase from the million sold the previous year.

Florida voters in the Nov. 5 general election will be asked to decide whether to approve Amendment 1, which would make school board elections partisan by including political party labels, such as Democrat and Republican, on the ballot next to a candidate’s name.

On the afternoon of June 5, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed House Bill (HB) 385 into law. The bill, known as “Cassie Carli law,” will go into effect July 1.

Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way they should go and when they are old, they will not depart from it.”

Training children in the ways of God is just what the Wesleyan Child Care Center does. The childcare, on the campus of First Methodist Church, is located at 599 8th Ave., in Crestview.

Laurel Hill resident Travis Dewrell said the fire that recently destroyed his mother’s log cabin house was intentionally set, and that whoever caused it first stole cash, jewelry and guns from her safe.