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.

Organizers of the upcoming “Team Jesus — ThanksGIVING Outreach” event in Crestview want to remind people they’re not forgotten, says Leicee Braneff.

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.

With back-to-back holidays right around the corner, your garage is about to get a lot more cluttered storing boxes and boxes of decorations. We break out fall decorations first followed by Halloween and Thanksgiving. Shortly after that, people typically do the quick turn around, packing up their orange and brown decor and trading it for holiday colors of reds and greens. Then, maybe we will unpack some glittery hats, streamers and party horns for the New Year. Decorating for the holidays can be chaotic. And with the help of Closets by Design, your garage or storage room will be organized, and every decoration will have a home, making preparing for the holidays enjoyable like it should be.

Okaloosa County will pay tribute to U.S. service members this Veterans Day with a veteran appreciation event and unveiling ceremony for two new life-sized women veteran statues that will be added to Women Veterans Monuments at Veterans Park.

A petting zoo, games, contests, raffles, inflatables, an obstacle course, a silent auction, and food trucks and vendors will all be featured at the Fourth Annual Harvest of Hope Festival.

Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children Unit have spent the past two weeks conducting undercover operations designed to identify and arrest online child predators, S.O. officials said today in a news release.

The United Way Emerald Coast’s support of Meals on Wheels of Okaloosa County is even more important this year because of the county’s decision to not provide financial help to nonprofits.

A grand opening ceremony for the Vineyard Village apartment complex is scheduled for noon Friday, Nov. 14, at 225 W. Field Ave. near downtown Crestview.