The Tractor Supply Co. store at 320 W. U.S. Highway 90 in Crestview is undergoing a major expansion.

Based on concerns from members of the Emerald Coast Regional Council, the council’s executive committee is working to provide “a complete and total breakdown of all the expenditures” for a recent ECRC-hosted gathering that included a controversial party in Miramar Beach, ECRC Board Chair Kasey Cuchens said today.

The new Texas Roadhouse restaurant in Crestview will be open to the public for dinner on Monday, May 6, according to a company spokesperson.

A group of 15 students and teachers from middle and high schools in north Okaloosa County went on a behind-the-scenes tour of several local businesses on Friday.

Two proposed shopping centers are in different stages of development north of U.S. Highway 90 in Crestview, City Manager Tim Bolduc said at today’s Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce Networking Breakfast at the city Community Center.

Baker resident Liz Bears quickly peeled stickers from pages and gave them to scores of north Okaloosa County area residents and other folks who filed past her at the Crestview Community Center on Wednesday evening.
The message on the stickers read, “Stop North Okaloosa Run Away Growth.”

Fortunately, the days of senior citizens having to walk outside to use the restrooms at Crestview’s Senior Activity Center are numbered.

One reads, “Jesus Loves You,” with the shape of a heart representing the “o” in “Loves.”
Another pays tribute to “Mable Edge, Coney Island Icon, ‘What Fer Ya.’”
And another honors “Nicholai Jewett, 06-25-1981-07-02-2008, A Proud Soldier for his Country & the Lord, rest in God’s peace.”

Gigapower, a joint venture between AT&T and BlackRock, announced today an expansion of its state-of-the-art fiber optics network to Crestview, providing in-demand quality broadband connectivity to the community.

The plan to open a restaurant called Cesiano’s in the former Cash’s Liquor Store and Lounge building in Laurel Hill has apparently fallen through.