SHALIMAR — The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is alerting residents about a phone scam reported in our area.
A person recently received a phone call from a person indicating he was an AT&T employ…
Month: February 2019
Virginia Senate passes bill to allow guns in church
WEEK IN RELIGION
The Virginia Senate passed a bill earlier this week that would allow church goers to bring guns into places of worship. The bill reverses a law from the colonial era that forbids …
Okaloosa sheriff's office names School Resource Officer of the Year
SHALIMAR — The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has selected its School Resource Officer of the Year for 2018.
"Deputy Cullen Coraine came to our agency in 2013 and quickly became a part of the Spe…
Is a religionless Christianity needed?
The young German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed on April 9, 1945 in the Flossenbürg concentration camp, just weeks before the United States Infantry liberated the camp. The Nazis hanged …
'If we can't protect our children, what else really matters?'
SHALIMAR — Okaloosa County Sheriff Larry Ashley spent nine months on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission.
The commission issued a 450-page report outlining the system …
Public can meet, attend interviews with Crestview city manager candidates
UPDATE: The Crestview City Council meet and greet will end at 6 p.m. Feb. 4, instead of the previously stated 5:30 p.m.
CRESTVIEW — The city of Crestview will host a city manager candidate meet-and…
Area veteran and family to receive home from nonprofit
CRESTVIEW — Homes For Our Troops will soon begin building a custom home for U.S. Army veteran Vicente Ramirez. A kickoff celebration is scheduled Feb. 16 in Crestview.
In 2006, Ramirez lost his lef…
Walker ES students raise $2,000 for K-9 unit
CRESTVIEW —Walker Elementary School students spent more than a year fundraising in order to donate $2,000 to Crestview Police's K-9 division.
The students' work included popsicle sales, pizza parti…
Okaloosa Community Briefs
CRESTVIEW — Here are upcoming and recent events in North Okaloosa County and surrounding areas. Crestview grad releases book on Trump presidency
Cliff Sims, a 2002 Crestview High School graduate, …