Alfred Joyce Kilmer, an early 20th-century poet, is best known for his poem, “Trees.”
Kilmer started the poem with the line, “I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree.”
Neko Stubblefield was a whirlwind as she moved across Joel Martin’s Crestview High School classroom.
Stubblefield, a vice-president at Eglin Federal Credit Union, was on mission to pack as much financial wisdom and responsibility as possible into a class session lasting a little less than an hour.
By late 2026, Okaloosa County School District officials plan to have seven portable classroom units adjacent to the Baker School bus ramp replaced with an addition containing 12 permanent classrooms.
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.
For the second year in a row a Crestview High School student in the Building Trades program has won the Robert and Amy Harper Scholarship awarded by the Home Builders Institute.
Many students that are lifelong residents of Crestview dream of the day they will get to Crestview High School for the final leg of their journey in the Okaloosa County School system.
An estimated 1,100 students made their way through the Crestview High School gym on March 12 to see what their future career could look like without a college degree. Businesses looking for summer employees, such as Big Kahuna’s Water Park in Destin were also on hand.
Ashley Campbell took a less traveled road into the field of education and her third-grade classroom.
Campbell, who is the Riverside Elementary School Teacher of the Year, has been working with children since her teenage years, but only recently found herself teaching.
