Local News

 The tobacco industry is losing customers. Not only are more smokers quitting, every day, an estimated 1,315 people in the United States die because of smoking. 

 The Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science has accepted into its collection four miniature replicas of Old Florida homes crafted by late Levy County resident, Murrel Watson. The replicas were donated by Murrel’s son, Franklin Watson, who inherited them after his death is 2004.

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Next Tuesday four Williston incumbents, who  faced no opposition earlier this year,  will be sworn in to their next term of office.

Mayor R. Gerald Hethcoat and Councilmen Jason Cason, Matt Brooks and Charles Goodman, all qualified unopposed in January and by default earned the privilege to govern the city for two more years.

The investiture service will take place at 7 p.m. April 8.

 Williston Library is minus two long time workers as Michelle Traylor and Mary Read retired after more than 26 years on the job.