The Main Street Crestview Association's recent Grill and Chill event provided fun and refreshment for attendees Aug. 7 in Crestview. MSCA said support from volunteers, the city of Crestview, and all of the businesses that participated made the event a success. More.

The Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs, the 9/11 and Global War on Terrorism Remembrance Task Force and the Minnesota Military and Veterans Museum will mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with an event open to the public on the Minnesota State Capitol grounds Sept. 11. More.

A new film reveals and renews the tensions that went into creating the Sept. 11 museum beneath the memorial waterfalls and reflecting pool at the World Trade Center. Unhappy museum officials have objected and sought changes to “The Outsider,” a documentary being released this week that reveals conflicting visions behind the New York landmark, which opened in 2014. More.

Documentaries often cast their subjects in a congratulatory light, but “The Outsider” portrays Michael Shulan, the first creative director of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, as in effect the last honest historian of Sept. 11, 2001 — a man who wanted to pose “big questions,” per the voice-over, that America might not have been ready to ask. More.

Marilyn White and her husband Paul have volunteered at The Northern Trust for more than four decades. She chairs the player services committee that does everything from making sure the PGA TOUR pros and their families get picked up at the airport to getting their laundry done. She’s made dinner reservations, arranged museum visits and procured tickets to Broadway shows. More.

A special concert to remember the fallen 9/11 heroes is set for Saturday at the Northwell Health Theater at Jones Beach. The Tunnel to Towers Foundation's 'Never Forget Concert' boasts performances from The Chainsmokers, Journey and Flo Rida, just to name a few. The concert is in remembrance of the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. More.

Kathy Williamson, 70, and Curtis Williamson, 72, North Carolina residents traveling cross-country in a recreation vehicle, wanted to pay their respects to American fallen heroes. Rebeca Castillo, 42, an El Salvador tourist visiting the United States for the first time, was curious to see with her own eyes a site of the atrocity that glued her to her TV 20 years ago. More.

The Wisconsin Rapids Fire Department is one of many in Wisconsin collecting gently used shoes to be used in a 9/11 Memorial. In all, they're looking to collect 351 pairs: one for all the firefighters and EMS personnel who died responding to the World Trade Centers on Sept. 11, 2001. More.