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Today's Features

  • I like peanuts, but to be more accurate, I love peanut butter. To date, I have found nothing that contains peanut butter that I haven’t taken to like a moth is attracted to light.
    Being a finicky eater since childhood, the peanut butter sandwich was always an option when dinner was something I didn’t care for.
    My grandparents always had chunky peanut butter for when I visited. I’d get a spoonful and lick it like a lollipop as a snack or treat.

  • Sunday, Sept. 26

    WGP Clean Up
    The Friends of the Withlacoochee Gulf Preserve (WGP) will meet Sunday, Sept. 26, from 1-3 p.m. to do some maintenance at the Preserve, 1001 Old Rock Road, Yankeetown.  The public is invited to help keep the WGP a great place to visit. Bring your garden tools and brooms.  For additional information email Friendswgp@bellsouth.net.

    Friday, Oct. 1

  • By James Snyder

  • Harvey and Pat Ritter of Bronson will celebrate their 50th anniversary Friday, Sept. 24.
    The couple was married Sept. 24, 1960 at Ebenezer Methodist Church in Havertown, Pa. in a double wedding with the bride’s sister and her husband, Carol and Don Hughes.
    Mrs. Ritter was a homemaker while her children were growing up. She later was a florist, worked as a receptionist and retired this year from the Levy County Health Department.

  • Terry and Jenny Jones announce the engagement of their son Jake Jones to Felicia Jinario.
    The couple will be married Oct. 9.

  •   Joe and Lois Crane of Williston will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary Sept. 29.
    The couple was married Sept. 29, 1950. They are members of the First Methodist Church of Williston and have four children Linda Parrish, Joey Crane, Julie Crane and Lori Brown.

  •    George Munsell will tell you he  was born in Miami in 1939 then he’ll fast-forward to the time, 14 years later, when he would deliver papers on his bicycle then stop at the liquor store to get the coins he was paid with turned into bills.  
       One day the liquor storeowner told George’s dad, “I’m going to make that boy a jockey when he’s 16.”  His dad was fine with the idea.

  • Sunday, Aug. 1

    Poley Reunion

    The Grandpa Poley Reunion will be Sunday, Aug. 1 all day at the Levy County Quilt Musem. Lunch will be served at noon. Please bring food to share.

    If you play music, bring your instruments and join in the fun.

    For more information, call Winnelle Horne at 352-493- 2801.

    Wednesday, Aug. 4

    SHINE

  • Thursday, July 29

    TDC

    The Levy County Tourist Development Council will have its bi-monthly meeting Thursday, July 29 at 6 p.m. at the  Levy County Visitors Bureau, 620 N. Hathaway Ave., Bronson

    The meeting is open to the public.

    Sunday, Aug. 1

    Poley Reunion

    The Grandpa Poley Reunion will be Sunday, Aug. 1 all day at the Levy County Quilt Musem. Lunch will be served at noon. Please bring food to share.

    If you play music, bring your instruments and join in the fun.

  • On July 1-2, Williston School of Dance hosted its most prestigious workshop master class to date, as Michael Patrick Gallagher flew in for eight hours of master Irish dance instruction.

    Gallagher is a two-time World Champion Irish dancer as well as a longtime “Riverdance” lead.

    Gallagher hails from County Donegal, Ireland, and currently resides in Arizona. The school made his acquaintance several years ago when artistic director Sarah Ingley and her son used to travel to Gallagher’s workshops in Georgia.

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