Crestview High School held a College and Career Fair in their multipurpose building this past Friday.


Students from Crestview, Baker, and Laurel Hill attended the event along with multiple different colleges and businesses to get thinking about their futures.

Passion is when you put more energy into something than is required to do it. It is more than just enthusiasm or excitement. Passion is ambition that has materialized into action to put as much heart, mind, body and soul into something as is possible.


For Laurel Hill resident Charlotte Brooks, her passion has put her on a national stage, and now to the collegiate level.

Brittany Young, who has served as the assistant principal of Walker Elementary School in Crestview for the past several years, is now the school’s principal.

All 11th-grade students from Crestview, Baker and Laurel Hill high schools are invited to attend CHS’ 2026 Career Fair from 9 a.m. to noon Friday, March 6, in the CHS Multipurpose Building.

Pedestrian Safety Poster Contest winners were honored during the Okaloosa County School Board’s meeting on Monday.

During “Ranch Day” each Friday, students in the K-12 Wagyumama Schoolhouse homeschool instructional program learn, among other skills, how to build a shelter, make a fire with nothing but a flint rock, change a tire, drive a tractor, take care of animals, and be good stewards of the land.

The Okaloosa County School District, in partnership with the Okaloosa Public Schools Foundation and the Early Learning Coalition of the Emerald Coast, invites families to a free Kindergarten and Voluntary Prekindergarten Registration Family Movie Afternoon on Sunday, Feb. 1, at Regal Cinemas Santa Rosa, 300 Mary Esther Blvd.

For the 2026 calendar year, all public, regular Okaloosa County School Board meetings will begin at 5 p.m. instead of 6 p.m.

Supporting school choice while ensuring public and nonpublic schools are on a level playing field financially and implementing a public reporting system on bullying incidents at schools are some of the tasks Cynthia West would like to tackle as a potential Okaloosa County School Board member.

On Jan. 5, longtime Northwood Elementary School educator Aimee Lewis will begin serving as the school’s new principal.