BC Music celebrated its new store at 2207 S. Ferdon Blvd. in Crestview with a ribbon cutting ceremony last Wednesday.

Hundreds of people on Saturday enjoyed the 19th Annual Baker Heritage Day Festival, which took place under sunny skies at the Baker Block Museum’s Heritage Park.

Two Crestview residents are starring in a new TV sitcom, which will hold its premiere in Pensacola this month.

The nonprofit Hope Starts Here Thrift Store’s new location at 1116 N. Ferdon Blvd. in Crestview has several advantages over its former downtown spot at 192 Main St., says store owner and manager Angela Jones.

At today’ grand opening celebration of the Vineyard Village apartment complex in Crestview, District 4 state Rep. Patt Maney, who was instrumental in obtaining state funding for the development, said there is nothing he likes better than supporting local projects.

Chevon Corlew-Coleman, a Crestview gospel singer, songwriter and musician who has sung the national anthem at several major local events, opened for gospel artists such as Larnell Harris, Donnie McClurkin, and Marvin Sapp, and written for Grammy Award-winning gospel singer CeCe Winans, will highlight the upcoming FOR THAT Benefit Concert.

At Crestview’s Veterans Day Ceremony this morning, U.S. Air Force veteran and Hub City Mayor J.B. Whitten talked about a subject that he kept deeply buried until about four years ago, “when as a Vietnam War veteran, I attended a welcome home that we never received at the end of that war.”

Scores of onlookers bundled up on this sunny but cold morning to enjoy Crestview’s 35-minute-long Veterans Day Parade on Main Street.

During Monday’s Crestview City Council meeting, City Clerk Maryanne Girard announced she was resigning, effective immediately, following what she said was “a troubling erosion of trust and respect” between her and some council members in recent months.

U.S. Rep. Jimmy Patronis this spring won a special election to replace former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz in a Northwest Florida district. Patronis, a Republican, served nearly eight years as the state’s chief financial officer before his April election to Congressional District 1. Patronis, whose father and uncle started the popular Captain Anderson’s restaurant in Panama City, also served in the state House and as a member of the Florida Public Service Commission. (article written by Dara Kam of News Service of Florida)