From fighting for veterans’ rights to hosting dinners, live music shows and other events that are open to the public, the Oscar E. Wilson American Legion Post 75 in Crestview is a force to be reckoned with.
Duke Field – Aviators and aircraft maintainers who support the C-146A Wolfhound mission celebrated a major milestone April 5, 2024, surpassing 200,000 flying hours while meeting Air Force Special Operations Command’s global mobility requirements.
Mel Ponder, a Republican who was elected to his current four-year term as the District 5 Okaloosa County Commissioner in November 2020, doesn’t plan to run for re-election this fall.
Hoping to prevent tragedies that have occurred elsewhere in Florida and other states, a majority of the Okaloosa County Commission today approved an ordinance that limits the size of holes that people can dig on county-owned public beaches.
Ahleshia Elliott, who began working for the nonprofit Main Street Crestview Association as its office assistant last September and then as its event coordinator around the start of this year, became the MSCA’s executive director on March 29.
To make way for Crestview’s Main Street renovation project, the portion of Main Street between Industrial Drive and East Woodruff Avenue will be closed starting on Monday, April 15.
Fourteen-year-old Tayten Richard Cady, who is an Okaloosa online student and a former student of Davidson Middle School in Crestview, has been charged with making an electronic threat of a mass shooting/terrorist act.
