DESTIN — The 4th Annual Paddle at the Porch, featuring a $6,000 cash purse, will take place Aug. 15 in waters behind The Back Porch Seafood & Oyster House in Destin. The event features 1-mile and 3-m…
Month: August 2015
North Okaloosa Republicans eye '16 elections
CRESTVIEW — The North Okaloosa Republican Club's new officers — Jeremiah Hubbard, president, Crestview; John Marshall Sr., vice president, Baker; and Joe Loria, treasurer, Crestview — have plans for …
Relay For Life Crestview chapter seeks sponsors
CRESTVIEW — The American Cancer Society's Relay For Life Crestview chapter seeks sponsorship for its 2016 event. See the complete sponsorship packet at http://bit.ly/1L01cdq. Relay For Life is an an…
Crestview Citizen of the Year award presentation scheduled
CRESTVIEW — The Crestview City Council will give the Mae R. Coleman Citizen of the Year award to an area resident this week.
The meeting is 5:30-6 p.m. Aug. 10 in the city hall council chambers, 198…
Crestview area Girl Scouts help clean Gulf Island Seashore beaches
Having helped clean a beach themselves, Girl Scouts in Crestview Troop 676 encourage other organizations to help tidy Okaloosa County's top tourist attraction.
Walker Elementary's Boys and Girls contract not renewed; school board to vote on alternative program
The Boys and Girls Club of the Emerald Coast still offers an after-school program in Crestview, but as of July 30, it moved to the Church of the Epiphany.
Crestview High School band's new drum majors eye challenges and opportunities
When the 2015-16 Crestview High School band debuted Aug. 7, so did its new trio of drum majors. Head major Elizabeth Dunn, along with assistant majors Tiffany Berkley and Amelia Herman, will lead the…
Crestview council to select Citizen of the Year on Aug. 10
CRESTVIEW — The city council will meet next week to select the Mae R. Coleman Citizen of Year.
Crestview's Confederate flag discussion to continue next month
CRESTVIEW — The City Council will continue discussion on the Confederate battle flag during its first regular meeting next month.
LETTER: Silence about Planned Parenthood is deafening
Dear editor,
In reference to the Holocaust, Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
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