Hayrides, scarecrows, costume contests, and plenty of free candy will help highlight Crestview’s annual Fall Festival.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida plans to host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Crestview office at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 4.

CHELCO CEO Steve Rhodes was recently recognized by Northwest Florida State College Foundation 2023-24 Board Chair Alan Wood as the recipient of the Chairman’s Award.

After becoming Crestview’s police chief in September 2019, one of the first things Steve McCosker changed about the Police Department was its uniform policy.

The Florida Lottery has announced that Roy Boyer II, 54, of Shalimar, claimed a $1 million prize from the $20 MONOPOLY DOUBLER Scratch-Off game at the Lottery’s Pensacola District Office. He chose to receive his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $798,985.00.

In the October billing cycle, residential customers of Adams Sanitation will see an increase in their monthly bill for solid waste collection services in the city of Crestview.

A final city millage rate of 6.75 mills and a final city budget of $61.6 million for fiscal year 2025 were unanimously adopted by the Crestview City Council on Monday.

“Betsy, you were a blessing to the city of Crestview, and you have proven that over and over again,” City Councilman Joe Blocker told outgoing city Community Redevelopment Director Betsy Roy on Monday evening.

Songs such as “All Aboard the Choo-Choo Train” and some history from Crestview’s mayor helped set the scene of the city’s grand-opening ceremony for Wilson Street Park and its train-themed play structure late Monday afternoon.

A deep sense of relief settled over Staff Sgt. Terrance Grasty.

It was April 18, 2018, and Grasty, an Air Force civil engineering non-commissioned officer, worked to break up concrete. In an undisclosed, deployed location in the Middle East, Grasty looked around at the Airmen around him, joking and laughing with one another as they worked.