In a 4-0 vote, the Crestview City Council on Monday adopted the city’s tentative 6.75 millage rate and tentative $61.6 million budget for fiscal year 2025.

There’s a hint of fall in the air, but there’s always fascinating history to look back on. Here’s what was going on this next week in our hometown.

Various “unprecedented challenges” have led to the decision to close a cherished restaurant in downtown Crestview.

Kyle B. Frazier, 37, of Baker, was arrested Sunday night on a charge of DUI and other charges after causing a car crash that seriously injured a Pensacola man.

The general contractor for the ongoing renovation of Crestview’s Main Street is doing a “fantastic job” on what is a very complex project, City Manager Tim Bolduc said at Monday’s city Community Redevelopment Agency meeting.

Crestview High School’s new, $6.2 million, 11,430-square-foot multipurpose building is not just a sports facility, Okaloosa County School District Superintendent Marcus Chambers said this morning at the building’s ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The world of robotics comes to the Crestview History Museum on Sept. 14 during the museum’s monthly Second Saturday opening. The family friendly event is an opportunity to discover the fun, science, creativity and teamwork that robotics encompasses.

When it was time to go to bed, James “Jimmy” Thomas Whitaker always wanted to lay down his head in Crestview, said his nephew, Chris Henderson.

Three hundred U.S. flags, or about one for every 10 people who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America, sway in the breeze sailing over the front yard of Barry and Arlene Barrett’s home at 6070 Old Bethel Road, just outside of Crestview’s city limits.

After years of planning and construction, Crestview High School will officially celebrate its new multipurpose building on Thursday, Sept. 12.