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CRESTVIEW — A minor flood warning is in effect for the Shoal River near Crestview.
Website accuweather.com — based on information from the US National Weather Service — states the warning is in  fo…

CRESTVIEW — Weather shelters in Crestview will be available 6 p.m. to 8 a.m., Feb. 4-7, when temperature is below 40 degrees Fahrenheit, at the following Crestview churches.
•Thursdays:  Community …

Here's a list of upcoming events for Crestview, Okaloosa and Northwest Florida residents.

LAUREL HILL — The Laurel Hill Arts and Heritage Festival seeks artists, craftsmen, folkways demonstrators, historic re-enactors, honey farmers, jams and jellies producers, and vintage car owners to e…

CRESTVIEW — A Northwest Florida group known for playing
Appalachian and gospel music is coming to the Hub City.
The Crestview Public Library will host a performance by the Pelican Pickers from 6:…

VALPARAISO — The Heritage Museum of Northwest Florida invites art, craft, & antique vendors to the 40th Saturday in the Park Heritage Festival.
Vendors must produce quality, hand-crafted, original …

CRESTVIEW — Sharing Hands Network cofounder and CEO Esther Lynn Hemphill, eying expansion into North Okaloosa County, is emphatic about the one thing her organization does not want to do.
“The good…

CRESTVIEW — A local man received an email saying he won $1,000 in a tax preparation company’s daily drawing, and almost hit the delete button.
Luckily for Joseph Farran, his wife Blanca and their d…

CRESTVIEW — This weekend's Girl Scout Cookie sales are scheduled for these times in Crestview, by troop:
Troop 676:
●9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 6, Publix, Crestview
●9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 6, Walmart…

A number of Northwest Florida residents had Ashley Madison accounts when the dating service, which encourages cheating on a spouse, was hacked. 
North Okaloosa County communities were among those w…