CRESTVIEW — The NAACP's Okaloosa County branch wants to send a message to Crestview area residents: that black people's lives matter.
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CHECK IT OUT: Tell your library story
Libraries are essential to the communities they serve. Yet many times we hear reporting that they’ve become “irrelevant.”
Run nets $20K for nonprofit serving domestic, sexual violence survivors
DESTIN — Shelter House's 4th Annual Luminaria Run to End Domestic & Sexual Violence raised more than $20,000, according to a spokesperson.
2 organizations help Children in Crisis
FORT WALTON BEACH — Okaloosa foster children will be warm and comfortable this winter following the Silver Threads Quilt Guild's recent donations to Children in Crisis.
I AM WHERE? (In "Grandma's attic")
The Commodores sang about it, and so did Hillsong, though neither of their songs was about the kind of “Still” I’m looking at, a relic of North Okaloosa’s colorful early 20th-century history.
Okaloosa EMS taking patients home for the holidays
CRESTVIEW — Okaloosa skilled nursing and adult congregate living patients can visit family members for the holidays at no charge.
Free Christmas meals available for North Okaloosa's needy
CRESTVIEW — The AMVETS, Ladies Auxiliary, Sons of AMVETS and AMVETS Riders will deliver free Christmas dinners to local residents.
Intermittent lane closures planned for Interstate 10
Construction crews are installing foundations and support poles along Interstate 10 (I-10) for a new Intelligent Transportation System.
Crestview Housing Authority's Section 8 applications waiting list opens Jan. 12
CRESTVIEW — Applications for the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program will be available Jan. 12-23 at the Crestview Housing Authority front desk, 371 W. Hickory Ave., Crestview.
Okaloosa County park, landfill and Waste Management holiday closures announced
Okaloosa County parks will be open on Christmas and Jan. 1, but the restrooms will be locked. Parks will reopen after each holiday period.