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New Childcare Plans in Crestview Aims to Relieve Countywide Shortage

Getting childcare near Eglin Air Force Base is a lot like applying for college – but with less sleep. Typically, you’ve got to fill out several different applications, make a couple of non-refundable deposits… and you hope your child gets in, or at least wait-listed, at the ‘good one.’

Niceville War Hero Receives Vietnam Memento

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A special gift Thank yous come in all sorts of ways. Colonel Howard Hill received his at March’s Niceville-Valparaiso Chamber Breakfast as a small metal bracelet that another airman wore more than 50 years ago.    The owner, Lieutenant Colonel Fred Hills, wore it during Howard Hill’s time as a prisoner of war in the […]

304-Unit Apartment Building Breaking Ground in Niceville’s Deer Moss Creek

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A rendering of The Enclave at Deer Moss Creek. Niceville-based land developer Peter Bochinno confirmed to Mid Bay News his company, Marin Development, will break ground on a $75 million apartment complex after almost five years of waiting and hoop-jumping.    The Enclave at Deer Moss Creek, a 304-unit apartment complex of mostly one and […]

Not Just a FAD, According to one Fishy Former Commissioner

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Windes lobbys Okaloosa Commission for FAD Funding Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) have single-handedly created a charter fishing shoulder season, according to former Okaloosa County Commissioner Kelly Windes. Windes, a charter boat captain, wants the commission to make a $500,000 investment in even more of the large concrete structure dropped to the bottom of the gulf […]

Okaloosa Gas to Open $77 Million Facility in Valparaiso

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Okaloosa Gas to break ground this summer Okaloosa Gas, the publicly-run gas authority for Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, and Walton Counties, will open a new $77 Million facility in Valparaiso – and will help the tax rolls for the town.   Groundbreaking is scheduled for July 1, 2023. Carl Scott told the city council he believes […]

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