CRESTVIEW — Circuit Judge Michael Flowers anticipated a new downtown courthouse during Crestview’s centennial celebration today on the Okaloosa Courthouse lawn.
Flowers spoke about Crestview’s new, almost 70,000-square-foot courthouse that will have Old South or antebellum architecture.
“Aren’t we blessed and fortunate that we will be able to conduct justice where it’s always been conducted, where it belongs, in the county seat of Crestview?” he said.
Approximately 200 people listened to speakers including Mayor David Cadle, Main Street Crestview Association representative Pat Hollarn, Gaetz, County Commissioners Wayne Harris, Nathan Boyles and Carolyn Ketchel, Judge Michael Flowers and historical re-enactor James Moore, among others.
Among those attending the celebration included Circuit Judge Terry Ketchel, Sen. Greg Evers, County Commissioner Trey Goodwin, Crestview’s city councilmen and numerous city and county employees, and local law enforcement.
This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: CRESTVIEW CENTENNIAL: Judge Michael Flowers anticipates new courthouse (VIDEO)