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Today's News

  • Monument guides clear first hurdle

    Chiefland commissioners approved unanimously Monday night on first reading an ordinance that sets new guidelines for the placement of monuments at City Hall.

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  • Union, school board at odds

     The Levy County School Board and the teachers’ union, the Levy Educations Association, are at odds over whether a contract for the 2011-12 school year can be implemented. 

    The board ratified a contract in a unanimous vote at its Tuesday, April 2, meeting after Assistant Superintendent Patrick Wneck and Superintendent Bob Hastings reported teachers voted 203-202 to approve it on March 13.

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  • Motel meth lab a hazmat situation

    A meth lab being run out of the Bronson Motel, according to area law enforcement,was shut down in early March, but town officials are saying they have been left holding the proverbial bag, which, in this case, may be full of the deadly residue left from the illegal operation.

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  • Chiefland Commission to resurrect Ten Commandments

     Chiefland officials aren’t saying much about the Ten Commandments monument that left City Hall more than a year ago, where it went or when it’s expected to come back, but they’re making plans for its return.

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  • Commission is now all GOP

    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.

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  • Building official comes at a high price

    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. 

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  • Winner

     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.

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  • There's less sunshine than you think

    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.

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  • Late audit costs city big bucks

    Failure to submit its annual audit in a timely manner cost the city of Williston a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)–as much as $650,000–that would have replaced antiquated sewer lines on seven city streets and added a pressure reducing valve for the water system.

    The grants are awarded based on a point system that includes matching funds, impact and EEO/Fair Housing criteria.

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  • 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.

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