At 6 p.m. Tuesday in Baker, District 3 Okaloosa County Commissioner Nathan Boyles will host a public town hall meeting about the ongoing North Okaloosa Planning Study. The meeting will be held at Baker School gymnasium, 1369 14th St.

Baker resident Liz Bears quickly peeled stickers from pages and gave them to scores of north Okaloosa County area residents and other folks who filed past her at the Crestview Community Center on Wednesday evening. The message on the stickers read, “Stop North Okaloosa Run Away Growth.”

The history, heroism, excitement, and drama of World War II’s European Theatre of Operations unfold once again in Spanish Trail Park as the “Race to the Rhein” reenactment returns Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6.

While it is more than a decade away from being under construction, the route for the northwest Crestview bypass has been decided.

First, the good news: Without any significant weather delays, the four lanes of the newly expanded P.J. Adams Parkway between State Road 85 and Wild Horse Drive should be fully paved and open to traffic by April 8, Okaloosa County Public Works Director Jason Autrey said on Tuesday.

A Crestview man charged at Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies with a knife during a felony warrant service around midnight in Baker, resulting in an officer-involved shooting, S.O. officials said today in a news release.

Fortunately, the days of senior citizens having to walk outside to use the restrooms at Crestview’s Senior Activity Center are numbered.

Edmar Agustin Gonzalez, 33, of Crestview, Omar Josue Morales-Rodriguez, 44, of Freeport, and Marcos Aguilar Gonzalez, 39, of Santa Rosa Beach, each recently entered guilty pleas to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine.

People who enjoy smoking and/or vaping soon might find it harder to do so at Crestview’s Twin Hills Park.

A Crestview-area man who fled from an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy trying to make a traffic stop on Monday morning was soon captured, arrested, and jailed without bond on six charges.