Local News

  Fenwick D. “Mac” McCormick, Williston High School graduate and former agriculture teacher and FFA advisor at his alma mater, will be inducted into Florida FFA’s Hall of Fame during an Oct. 4 ceremony in Haines City.
   McCormick joins four other inductees who are being honored for their contributions in making Florida FFA one of the premier youth leadership organizations in the United States.

   Williston Rotary Club members received the challenge to have purple pinkies Tuesday when Lake City Rotarian John Wheeler spoke to the club about eliminating polio around the world.

   Once pandemic, polio is thisclose to be eradicated and Rotary has taken on the project to ensure it is in most of our live times.

   Today, the disease, which affects the nervous system and causes paralysis, originates in four countries: Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Nigeria.

Ryan Bell defeated Noel Desmond in the Republican primary election for the District 4 County Commission seat Tuesday, closely advancing to November’s general election by a mere 36 votes.

It was Levy County’s only local race on the ballot in the primary election, held on a day of poor weather and low turnout.

Of the 21,415 registered voters in the county, 24.97 percent turned out to vote.

It wasn’t the typical call that came in to Williston Fire and Rescue Saturday morning.

A farmer was reporting that one of his cows had apparently fallen into a sinkhole and he needed help getting it out.

Emergency workers were dispatched to the property, located near Hwys. 121 and 316 and found there wasn’t one cow in distress, but two.

Danny Wallace of Station 72 Fire and Rescue said the cows had somehow slipped through the barb wire and plummeted through the 30-foot funnel of the sinkhole.