Back to the northwest for Crossleys

ODESSA – Kolby Crossley, a 2012 graduate of Odessa High School, has returned to the state of Washington after several years living and working out of the state. He has accepted a position as the press liaison for the Auburn Police Dept. after having spent time in Montana and Colorado as a local TV news host and reporter. He becomes the first civilian to hold the position at the Auburn PD. Before, police officers were assigned to that duty. The unpopularity of that duty among officers was what prompted the hiring of a civilian.

After high school, Crossley attended Washington State University in Pullman, receiving his degree in broadcast journalism from the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication in 2016. It is also where he met his future wife Alyssa in 2013, and the two dated all through college. After obtaining his degree, Crossley spent two years as a television news reporter in Bozeman, Mont., where he presented the evening news for a year. In his second year there, he switched to the 'Wake up, Montana' morning show. When his contract expired at the end of that year, he and Alyssa decided they had had enough of a long-distance relationship. They married in December of 2018, settling in Colorado Springs, Colo. for two and a half years, where Crossley served as a reporter and anchor on the morning show, 'Good Morning, Colorado.'

Crossley is the son of Chris and Bill Crossley of Odessa and grandson of the late Lois Renken. Of Kolby and Alyssa's move to the Pacific Northwest, his mother Chris told The Record, "Thank goodness, we don't have to fly to visit them any longer."