The Watermelon Man
July 22, 2025
As the outside temperature reached 94 degrees shortly before 1 p.m. today, 67-year-old Crestview resident Danny Newton thanked yet another customer for buying a watermelon from the bed of his pickup truck and told her to “Have a blessed day.”
Planned Candlewood Suites will have many hotel neighbors
July 10, 2025
City of Crestview officials recently issued a development order for an 84-room Candlewood Suites hotel that’s slated to be built near the Interstate 10 interchange at State Road 85.
Good food, soul, love key to “Smokin Country Flava”
July 10, 2025
Adora Mcelheney, the owner of the “Smokin Country Flava” food truck in Crestview, fell in love again with her high school sweetheart in 2019.
Food was their shared passion, both working in the food industry. She herself was a manager of different restaurants such as Whataburger and Shoney’s, and he is what Mcelheney describes as a “master griller.”
Glory to Glory Ice Cream serves cold treats to Crestview
July 10, 2025
Benjamin Donnell and his wife, Alley, are both entrepreneurs. The pair, who have been married for almost nine years, talked daily about what kind of business they wanted to open.
“We would think about what it would look like to open a café with maybe sandwiches and coffee,” Benjamin Donnell said. “We were always talking about something, and the Lord opened the door for us to do something with ice cream and that is the direction we decided to go into. We knew this is what we needed right now.”
Chamber welcomes Mills Heating & Air
July 9, 2025
The Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday helped celebrate the grand opening of Mills Heating & Air’s new Hub City location at 1455 S. Ferdon Blvd., unit A-2.
Underwater headstones epitomize ‘the essence of the departed’
July 7, 2025
A company that builds artificial reefs using cremated remains is constructing its first “seametery” offshore of Destin.
C&C Asian Market brings good food and culture to Crestview
July 1, 2025
Chun Chun Chan Goodson credits her love of food and cooking to her time when she was a nurse in Hong Kong.
Along with being in internalized medicine in hospitals, Chan Goodson also worked as a home health nurse.
Historic peanut stand sticks with tradition
June 27, 2025
Only green peanuts were sold in the first six years of business for Jon Kelley’s Peanuts.
Ice cream shop owners embrace lions and legacy
June 25, 2025
Erik and Amanda Shutt, the owners of Be A Lion Ice Cream Co. in downtown Crestview, love to indulge in big servings of faith, family, and community.
Chamber welcomes Coastal Computers
June 25, 2025
The Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce celebrated the official ribbon cutting for Coastal Computers on Friday.