Local News

If the election of the first Republicans to office in Levy County in the 2008 election was historic, then by any measure an all-Republican Levy County Commission is a milestone.

The Levy County Commission has approved hiring Chiefland building official Bill Hammond as the county’s building and zoning official but it was not without some heartburn over his salary and benefits. 

 Joe Ostaszewski didn’t win the big prize on “The Biggest Loser”  Monday night, but he got something more valuable than money–he got his health back.

At 43, the Williston resident is in the best health of his life and that’s reason to celebrate.

For two weeks at the end of February, reporters from 31 news organizations, including the Chiefland Citizen (Levy Newspaper Group), participated in a project with the Florida Press Association to determine the availability ofrecords from Florida’s clerks and court offices in all of the state’s 67 counties.