MILTON — Bay Area Food Bank is eligible to win one of 50 grants as part of Walmart’s “Fight Hunger Spark Change” initiative.
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Hobo Festival returns Saturday after one-year hiatus
LAUREL HILL — After several months of work, the Laurel Hill Hobo Festival Planning Committee has scheduled and programmed Saturday’s Hobo Festival.
Cemetery clean-up scheduled this weekend
LAUREL HILL — Saturday’s annual clean-up day at Almarante Cemetery is a time for multiple generations of the tight-knit community to come together, commune with one another and sense the spirits of t…
Crestview Troop 773 forms region’s only Boy Scout band
Boy Scout Troop 773 jazz band members Austin Carrico, trumpet; Germainye Hudson, alto sax; Matthew Kannapel, trombone; and Matthew Erk, trombone, rehearse during a recent troop meeting.
Biggest-ever library book sale outgrows the library
CRESTVIEW — The Friends of the Crestview Library's annual fall book sale has grown too big for the library. So this weekend, the event moves to Warriors Hall in the Whitehurst Memorial Building.
Monthly food distribution beginning in Baker
BAKER — This month, after more than two years' planning and searching for funding, Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida will begin monthly food distribution for needy North Okaloosa County residen…
'FACES OF TURNER SYNDROME:' Event raises community awareness of chromosome disorder
CRESTVIEW — The Baxleys have additional financial support to help their daughter, Madison, who has Turner syndrome.
Purl Adams Sr. found ways to help the county progress
CRESTVIEW — Purl G. Adams Sr. was famous for finding ways to make things happen against the odds.
United Way organizers call the 21st Annual Days of Caring "a monumental success"
CRESTVIEW — “Real People. Real Results” has been the driving idea behind United Way of Okaloosa & Walton Counties’ 2014 campaign, and it certainly held true on Sept. 18 during the Crestview Day of Ca…
Crestview Orphan Care ministry hosts training workshop series
CRESTVIEW — A free workshop with training on early childhood attachment and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders is coming to Crestview in October.