FORT WALTON BEACH – It was the Micah Reed Show Friday night at Joe Etheredge Stadium. Splitting the tackles for a pair 70-plus-yard runs and routinely running over linebackers and making tacklers mis…
Mustangs take down Panthers
CRESTVIEW – More than middle school bragging rights were on the line as Shoal River hosted Davidson in the cross-town rivalry football game Thursday night at Crestview High School’s Jack Foster Stadi…
Niceville Kiwanis workday benefits Children in Crisis organization
The Kiwanis Key Club of Niceville-Valparaiso helped clean the Children in Crisis Children’s Neighborhood on a recent Saturday. Maintenance and improvement workdays at the neighborhood are every Satur…
Crestview counselors providing free Medicare information by appointment
Free Medicare counseling and information is available to adults age 65 and up at Crestview Public Library, 1445 Commerce Drive, and Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, 603 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave…
Elections supervisor offers synopses of constitutional amendments
CRESTVIEW — Okaloosa County Supervisor of Elections Paul Lux said he sympathizes with voters befuddled by summaries for 11 proposed amendments to the Florida Constitution that appear on the Nov. 6 ba…
Crestview man arrested on sexual battery charges
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has filed charges of sexual battery on a victim over age 12 and contributing to the delinquency of a minor against Crestview resident Lyle Franklin Forrest Jr.
Downtown parking lot expected to be finished ahead of schedule
After several years of false starts and setbacks, construction on a downtown parking lot is underway. Having cleared the land, earlier this week, a crew from DeFuniak Springs-based Utilities Solution…
Hobo Festival needs last-minute volunteers and vendors
Saturday, after months of concern that it wouldn’t happen, the city of Laurel Hill will present its annual Hobo Festival.
School districts scramble to find room for kindergartners
Another jump in the number of kindergartners in local schools has officials scrambling again to find space for them.
Area blood drives announced
Local blood drives for OneBlood, Inc., servicing Northwest and South Florida, lower Alabama and Georgia, are listed below.