FORT WALTON BEACH — Four Okaloosa County parks have potentially hazardous bathing water, the Florida Department of Health in Okaloosa County stated Aug. 7.
Liza Jackson Park, Fort Walton Beach, Gar…
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Crestview's musical opportunities abound
I enjoy music and appreciate good musicians, so I am pleased to live in a town that values good music.
We are fortunate to have music programs in our schools and to have the North Okaloosa Communit…
Stay calm on the investment 'roller coaster'
Unless you live near an amusement park that does a lot of advertising, you probably didn't know that Aug. 16 is National Roller Coaster Day. Actual roller coasters provide people with thrills. But as…
Learn about fall vegetable gardening
We are fortunate to be able to grow some sort of vegetables year round in Florida. But not all vegetables will grow year round.
Planting time is critical, because cool-season crops tolerate and req…
Connect Church sets Boston butt benefit
CRESTVIEW — A smoked Boston butt fundraiser is scheduled. Funds will be used by Connect Church (formerly Pleasant Hill Baptist Church) members to get their new pastor and his family to Crestview from…
Mount Zion sets Men's Day
CRESTVIEW — Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church scheduled its 57th annual Men's Day celebration.
The program has three services: church school at 9:30 a.m. Aug. 13, morning worship at 11 …
Church offers children's Bible classes
CRESTVIEW — Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church now has Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed classes, or AWANA, available for children ages 2 through fifth-graders. The classes teach children God's word and disc…
Milligan Water System boil advisory ends
BAKER — A precautionary boil water notice issued Aug. 1 for Milligan residents has ended.
Milligan Water System issued a boil advisory after a major water line break occurred Tuesday.
Employees…
The point of a treasured hymn
Horatio Spafford, after enduring an horrendously tragic event in his life, wrote a poem which later became a beloved hymn.
In 1873, two years after the death of his young son due to scarlet fever, …
Crestview teen to help lead Florida’s anti-tobacco movement
CRESTVIEW — Students Working Against Tobacco, Florida’s statewide youth-led movement to combat the tobacco industry, announced the names of its new Youth Advocacy Board members.
The group named Cre…