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Counting the accomplishments

January 10, 2024
February of this year will mark the fifth year of Tim Bolduc’s service to the City of Crestview as its first-ever city manager. He was appointed by the City Council in February 2019.

The rise of north Okaloosa County

January 2, 2024
Since 2000, Crestview’s population has increased by 67%. That’s an increase of about 14,000 people. The sharpest increase in the population came in 2010, 2011, and 2012 and then again in 2020. The total percentage increase in those years was 23%. A large portion of that came from the addition of the Army’s 7th Special Forces Group, comprised of about 2,500 active-duty personnel and about 300 civilians who work alongside them.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

December 21, 2023
VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except (what) they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Crestview saves Christmas

December 14, 2023
December 2 was the date to kick-off the holiday season with all the trimmings and culminating in the lighted Christmas parade down Main Street.

Always remember Pearl Harbor

December 6, 2023
This newspaper is dated Dec. 7, 2023, the 82nd anniversary of the devastating surprise attack by the Japanese against the U.S. Navy’s facilities at Pearl Harbor, Hawai’i. Most Americans know today is Pearl Harbor Day, that the attack precipitated the United States’ entry into World War II and that President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in condemning Japan’s aggression, called Dec. 7, 1941, “a date that shall live in infamy.”

Shop small. Shop local.

November 27, 2023
The holidays are blazing their way in and now we are counting down the shopping days until Christmas, because it has become tradition to spend an exorbitant amount of money on friends and family for one day when most are celebrating the birth of Jesus.

We are thankful

November 22, 2023
We at Sandpaper Publishing have much to be thankful for, beginning with our members and readers. You fuel the passion we have for publishing three newspapers each week for three communities. We work hard to report and write the stories the matter most to you. We are your voice and are privileged to be in that role. Thank you for choosing us as your news and information source. We hope you stay tuned because we have so much more work to do for you.

“No one reads newspapers anymore”

November 14, 2023
It was a statement we heard at a national business conference and that wasn’t the only remark we heard about our industry. “Journalists go to journalism school to learn how to ask stupid questions.” This particular speaker had been the subject of “gotcha” journalism in the past. Every time an employee left his company it made the front page of the local newspaper. They referred to him as a cult leader and worse.

‘One Pill Can Kill’: Stopping fentanyl overdoses is a community responsibility

November 6, 2023
Speak up. Talk to your children, your siblings, your friends. Tell them until they’re sick of hearing it: “One pill can kill.”

By now, most people know the United States is plagued by opioid addiction, overdoses and death; most people have heard of fentanyl, know that it’s dangerous even in miniscule doses; know it’s combined with other drugs to increase drug dealers’ profits….and still, fentanyl-related overdoses are on the rise.

Trusted and reliable, local newspapers matter to their communities

October 30, 2023
A recent Gallup study showed that American’s confidence in the national mass media has reached a near record low. While that’s disturbing, it’s not unexpected. The digital age has brought a barrage of national news sources that are focused on sound bites, opinions, partisan views and a race to push out breaking news, even if it hasn’t been properly fact-checked or vetted. The problem has been exasperated by social media channels that allow disinformation to be distributed virtually unchecked.
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