Darice “Dusty” Allison, a retired longtime probation and parole supervisor for the Florida Department of Corrections, was chosen by the Crestview City Council on Monday to serve the remainder of the four-year term of former Precinct 1 City Councilor Joe Blocker, who resigned Nov. 30 because of health reasons.
Farmers, bikers, school bands, a beauty queen, first responders, members of businesses and nonprofit groups, church members, dancers, elected officials, mascots, horses, dogs, several Grinches, many modern and classic four-wheeled vehicles, and Santa and Mrs. Claus rolled, marched, boogied or were carried along in Crestview’s 1 1/2-hour-long Christmas Parade on Saturday evening up the renovated Main Street, the wide sidewalks of which were filled with throngs of happy kids and adults who caught thrown candy, stuffed animals, beads and other holiday treasures.
Thirty-five-year-old Holt resident Leah Feeback was arrested on Monday after she struck a state trooper with her vehicle on Interstate 10 and fled the scene.
Next year, Okaloosa County officials hope they’ll receive federal money to cover most of the cost of a proposed sidewalk project on Valley Road within and next to Crestview’s city limits.
In a unanimous vote, the Okaloosa County Commission agreed today to deny a request to change the future land use map designation of 498 acres north of Possum Ridge Road, in the Garden City area, from Rural Residential and Agricultural to Low Density Residential.
Vaida Jasmine McDougald, a 13-year-old Okaloosa Online Student who lives in the Deerland area east of Crestview, was arrested at her home on Monday on a second-degree felony charge of making an electronic threat of a mass shooting/terrorist act.
