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  • Council opts to sever Collins with $27K+

    Williston City Council took more than 90 minutes Tuesday discussing how much, if any, severance pay was due to the former city manager.
    The end result–more than $27,000-but it was a difficult journey getting to the figure.
    Marcus Collins, city manager since January 2009 resigned March 23 and at last week’s meeting council voted to give him a severance package, that included vacation and sick time.

  • Crab Fest is Saturday

    On April 30,  the annual Crab Fest will begin in the Williston area.  The event usually begins mid afternoon and last during the late evening hours.  There will be an increase in vehicle & pedestrian traffic in the area of County Road 318 in East Williston.
     

  • Mack-Fugate Investigation

    Read the labor attorney's findings here:

    http://www.lcni5.com/pages/pdfs/123/scan1197.PDF

  • Homegrown boy ready to give back

    You’ve been on the same job for 38 years, you’re still young and you have your health. And then you retire. What do you do?

    If you’re Williston’s Jack Screws Jr., you throw your newly unemployed self into the public arena and seek to become a councilman.

    Screws, the latest addition to Williston City Council, applied in January to fill the unexpired term of Norm Fugate and qualified for that same seat.

  • County upgrading animal shelter

    It was a busy day at the Levy County Animal Shelter on Tuesday. Many of the pens held pups, kittens, cats and dogs up for adoption and an animal officer was on his way in from Inglis with nine dogs while a resident walked in with two howling kitties.

  • Pinkstons help restore Atsena Otie cemetery

    The early morning sun was still casting a thin line of light along the contours  of the bodies of the eight men and women who had gathered on the small, wind-swept island of Atsena Otie last week.

  • Pavilion may be ready by July

    Despite a minor setback a couple weeks ago due to a storm water issue, progress continues with the improvements to the pavilion in the middle of Heritage Park.

  • More Crabfest arrests made

    After reviewing videos and photographs taken at Williston’s Crabfest April 27, Levy County law enforcement agents discovered that at least one more incident was occurring simultaneously with the shooting that left one man dead.

  • The mechanic had hot pink nails

    Approaching the truck with the raised hood, all that’s visible is a slim figure laboriously clanging away at a motor.

  • County workshop on Crabfest coming

    The Williston Crabfest, an unorganized annual gathering in East Williston each April, is still getting attention because of the furor over a shooting that left one person dead and four wounded.

    Discussion of the event, which some estimate attracted 10,000 people and shut down County Road 318 on April 27, came up during Tuesday’s regular morning meeting of the Levy County Commission.

    Chair Ryan Bell of Chiefland (R-District 4) said the commission will hold a workshop at a future date to discuss the annual event and how to handle the crowds.

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