CRESTVIEW — The Okaloosa County Water and Sewer Crestview office will close from 12-4 p.m. Oct. 2. Contact the 311 Citizens Information Line for more information.
Category: local
Community activist goes door-to- door to raise funds for city buses
CRESTVIEW — One local activist, accepting the Okaoosa Board of County Commissioners' challenge, is putting feet to the pavement to save the city's threatened bus routes. Commissioners, citing low rid…
CHECK IT OUT: Prepare to paint pumpkins Oct. 29
Bring a pumpkin and wear old clothes on Tuesday, Oct. 29 because we’re painting pumpkins!
Safe Haven Horse Rescue Center helps horses and people (VIDEO)
LAUREL HILL — Safe Haven Horse Rescue Center rehabilitates and finds homes for abandoned and neglected members of the equine species, but the horses themselves can help rehabilitate and provide comfo…
Corn maze, trail to open this weekend in Baker
BAKER — Whether you’re snaking through a corn maze, firing a corn cannon or taking a haunted trail, you can get into the Halloween spirit starting this Friday in Baker.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day invades martial arts studio
CRESTVIEW — Scurvy dogs of various degrees of proficiency had to learn their taekwondo forms Thursday or face their saber-wielding masters’ wrath.
Former Crestview mayor Ted Mathis dies
CRESTVIEW — Former Mayor Ted Mathis, who died Thursday of congestive heart failure following a period of illness, served in City Hall from November 1987 until April 1995.
New fall event to substitute for canceled Hobo Festival
LAUREL HILL — Following the Hobo Festival committee’s decision to cancel this year's event, two Laurel Hill organizations are stepping up with a substitute festival.
"Free 2013" focuses on drug abuse awareness this Friday
BAKER — Local businesses, two North Okaloosa churches and the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office are raising drug abuse awareness this weekend.
Organizations showcase to answer question: 'What is there to do here?'
CRESTVIEW — With more than 50 organizations, clubs, societies and associations active in North Okaloosa County, the Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce wants to gather all of the region's open-members…