Homemade ice cream, food trucks, live music, quilting, spinning, loom weaving and other heritage craft demonstrations, children’s activities, Christmas photo sessions, and arts and crafts vendors will all be part of the 19th Annual Baker Heritage Day Festival.

JetBlue today announced new nonstop service to Florida’s Emerald Coast, with flights to Destin–Fort Walton Beach Airport (VPS) starting March 5.

Signs at the gate of the 7th Special Forces Group compound just south of Crestview contain truths of the Special Operations Forces, retired United States Army Lt. Col. Dan Keener said at this morning’s Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce Military Appreciation Breakfast.

Leading up to Thanksgiving, a total of about 20,000 pounds of free produce and other free food will be distributed to at least 250 families at the Farm-City Week 2025 food distribution event on Friday, Nov. 21 in Crestview.

Amvets Post 35 will once again be offering Thanksgiving Day meals delivered to Crestview residents.

Looking ahead, the Dorcas Fire District is “going to be an exemplary fire service for others to follow,” fire service veteran Charles “Chuck” Cooper told the Okaloosa County Commission this morning.

Roy K. Semone, 63, of the 4700 block of Balboa Road near central Crestview, was served with a warrant and arrested on Friday on two counts of possession of child pornography and 30 counts of possession of film or image of sexual contact between a person and an animal (bestiality).

Okaloosa County School District Superintendent Marcus Chambers and District 4 School Board member Tim Bryant recently helped Davidson Middle School celebrate its “A” school grade for the 2024-2025 school year.

Crestview-area residents Brian and Kim Johnson continue to rely on their children, neighbors and other community members to help them recover from a fire that recently destroyed the house they called home for 18 years.