Today's News

Strong and relentless defense played by the Williston Red Devils came through again in their district game Friday night, Jan. 8, as they overwhelmed the Ft. White Indians 72-33, improving to 5-0 in district play.

Holding a 15-11 lead after one quarter of play, the Red Devils held the Indians to a mere 6 points in the second quarter as they extended their lead to 35-17 at half time.

The defense applied by the Red Devils continued to dominate the game in the second half as they held the Indians to just 16 total second half points.

Two weeks after a wreck that killed two of her closest friends and rocked the community, Nikole Brown is back home in the loving care of her mother trying to work her way back to health.

Nikole, who will be 16 at the end of this month, was the lone survivor of an accident that took the lives of Williston High School seniors Tiffany Oliver and Marqui Cook Dec. 27.

The girls were on their way to Gainesville from a bonfire in Dunnellon when the accident occurred in the wee hours of the morning.

The Levy County Sheriff’s Office reports the following arrests:

• Timothy M. Luckey, 20, of Old Town was arrested Jan. 7 and charged with three counts grand theft, two counts burglary of a residence, burglary of a structure and two counts dealing in stolen property when he allegedly took a golf cart from a Cedar Key residence, and is suspected of stealing several others. Bond was $120,000.

• Jimmy Edward Golden, 28, of Morriston was charged Jan. 10 on a Marion County warrant for grand theft. Bond was $5,000.

My father had a saying for when he drove extensively.

“I’ve been all over hell and half of Georgia,” he’d lament to my mother.

We thought it was funny considering we were in Kentucky and he really hadn’t been to Georgia.

However it stuck and over the years it has become my mantra too.

Thanksgiving weekend it became true.

Best friend Denise and her family rent a cabin in the North Georgia mountains every Thanksgiving.