I used the Waze app on a recent road trip and was a good “Wazer,” reporting and confirming road hazards along the way. “Vehicle on shoulder ahead,” the digital assistant would announce, sounding to me like she was annoyed. Sometimes there was a vehicle and sometimes it was there no longer, and I would dutifully give a status update by selecting the appropriate button. It was on that road trip that I realized that I needed to have my eyes checked. Sometimes I reported that the vehicle was no longer there when in fact it was. I needed a “whoops, my bad” button.

The city of Crestview’s Memorial Day Ceremony is set for 10 a.m. Monday, May 26 at the Okaloosa County Veterans Memorial on North Main Street.

Art and craft vendors, live music, and tasty food will highlight the Fourth Annual Baker Arts Festival, which is set for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, May 17.

Destin-Fort Walton Beach will host the Emerald Coast Open, the world’s largest lionfish tournament, from May 16-18.

City of Crestview officials on Tuesday announced that Crestview Animal Services has been selected to receive support from Best Friends Animal Society, a national leader in animal welfare, through the Jacksonville Humane Society.

“As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.” (Psalm 42:1-2 NRSV)

Crestview resident Bonnie Barlow, who is the president and CEO of Bridgeway Center Inc., is one of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ dozen appointees to the Florida Rehabilitation Council, according to a news release issued Friday by the governor’s office.

Ensign Jackson Perry, from Niceville, Florida, communicates with the engineering department to obtain fuel percentages during an underway replenishment with fleet replenishment oiler USNS John Lewis on the bridge of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley in the Philippine Sea on April 29.

A 32-year-old Crestview man wanted on numerous felony and misdemeanor warrants had been on the run from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office in recent weeks, but no longer.