Category: around-town

CRESTVIEW — A local auto dealership and the Crestview Police Department are ensuring needy children will have a merry Christmas.
Through a voluntary payroll withholding plan, 48 Allen Turner Chevro…

LAUREL HILL — More than 120 residents who attended the Laurel Hill Harvest Supper face the coming holidays filled not only with a bountiful meal but with God's spirit as well.
The annual event, at …

CRESTVIEW — Before a pooch like Lucy goes home, her potential adopted family must pass Panhandle Animal Lovers owner Hanne Berg's scrutiny.
Not everyone is suitable to be a pet owner — "you have so…

CRESTVIEW — Angela Meeks remembers the day she brought Elie Dipay home.
"When we brought my daughter, Elizabeth (Elie's half-sister), home, it was April the 29th of 2006," Meeks said. "The next day…

CRESTVIEW — Safe Connections Executive Director Sharon Rogers said circumstances similar to what led to Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Myers' death could be defused through the nonprofit organ…

Libraries are still relevant — even with today’s household technology and phones with Internet access — as extensions of local schools
CRESTVIEW — When Crestview librarians heard a speaker say “Lib…

CRESTVIEW — Covenant Hospice supporters can step back to the Roaring Twenties and the "Great Gatsby" era Oct. 3 during the 9th Annual Blue Jean Ball.
Organizers of this year’s “party with a purpose…

CRESTVIEW — Three candidates ascended to the rank of black belt in taekwondo Friday night. It took hard work and discipline to at last participate in the solemn candlelight ceremony, but for one arti…