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Today's News

  • Peanut Festival is Saturday

    The calendar may list the first day of autumn as Sept. 22 but folks in Williston know that fall doesn't begin until the Central Florida Peanut Festival takes place – and that happens this Saturday in Heritage Park.

    The festival –saluting the peanut harvest (and one of Williston's major agricultural crops) is in its 28th year.

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  • Old middle school, new city hall again take lead at council meeting

    What's old is new again as Williston City Council spent much of it's nearly three-hour meeting last week talking about subjects that have been discussed at length in the previous months.

    Members from Citizens for An Engaged Electorate and AARP took to the lectern last Tuesday to ask council members to revisit plans for the old middle school.

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  • Greenlee reappointed Bronson mayor

    By Sean Arnold

    Staff Writer

    Bruce Greenlee was unanimously reappointed mayor of Bronson at the town’s year-end council meeting on Sept. 19.

    Vice mayor Beatrice Roberts made the first motion to nominate Greenlee.

    “He really did a good job in his first year,” she said. “You all may not know, but I know, having been in that position, that he’s done a great, great job.”

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  • Bronson's James H. Cobb Park receives new funding

     By Sean Arnold

    The Town of Bronson was presented a check from Florida State Parks manager Tommy Pavao for $50,000 on behalf of the Florida Recreation Development Assistance Program (FRDAP) at the town council meeting on Monday. 

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  • School Board millage sees slight drop

    By Sean Arnold

    The School Board of Levy County unanimously adopted its final 2016-2017 millage and budget, setting the combined millage rate at 6.876, and the total budget at $77,264,131.00.

    The budget was revised up from the original advertised estimate by $1,503,385, largely due to $1,259,923 in additional anticipated costs for capital projects.

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  • Williston residents concerned about privacy invasion

    They were passionate and through their passion, they were vocal.

    Monday night about 50 Williston property owners attended a meeting of the Board of Adjustments and Code Enforcement (BACE) to hear about the new rewrite of the city ordinance that governs property maintenance and establishes penalties for non-compliance.

    BACE Chairwoman Sharon Brannan told the residents the rewrite's intent is to clean up the city and establish minimum standards.

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  • County keeps assessments same

    A strange thing happened at a Levy County Commission meeting on emergency medical, fire, solid waste and road assessments: commissioners reported they did not receive one call protesting the assessment. The commission office reported they did not get any calls. 

    And the lone county resident attending the second and final hearing on the assessments, which keeps them at the same level for the fifth year in a row, did not protest them. 

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  • Williston Rotary debuts The Rack

      The Rotary Club of Williston debuted its newest service project – The RACK – Rotarians Actively Caring for Kids.

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  • Chapter 48 of the Code of Ordinances

    Please review and make your voice heard to the Williston Board of Adjustment and Code Enforcement.

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  • Business Alliance forms to help stir and support Levy's economy

     More than 20 people attended the inaugural meeting of the Nature Coast Business Alliance last week, hosted by David Pieklik of the Nature Coast Business Development Council of Levy County.

    The Alliance is designed to network to enhance the economic development of Levy County, in addition to assisting and maintaining the businesses that are already in place.

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