TIME CAPSULE OPENED

Several hundred on hand for event at courthouse

Cleark of Courts Greg James was the Master of Ceremonies for the event on the courthouse grounds on Thursday, July 2, to open time capsules from 1976 and bury capsules to be opened in 2076.
PHOTO BY GERALD BROWN

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

Days before the America 250! event at the courthouse, county Road and Bridge Director Mike King had equipment on the grounds to pull up the solid concrete mass that held two time capsules from 1976.

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$1,000 donation to VFW

(Photo by Lynda Kinsey)

At last week’s Salute to Veterans event at the community center to bring services to military veterans, Michael and Cathy Harris of Wakulla made a donation of $1,000 to the event sponsor Veterans of Foreign Wars. VFW Post Commander Sean Golder is seen with the Harrises. Cathy Harris stated that “We believe we need to give it away in order to keep it.”

Frances Casey Lowe law firmjoins Ausley McMullen

Crawfordville Attorney Frances Casey Lowe

SPECIAL TO THE SUN

Ausley McMullen, one of Florida’s oldest and highly respected law firms, today announced Lowe Legal & Title will be joining their firm, creating an expanded legal team that combines more than a century of trusted legal counsel and broadens the services and resources available to clients throughout North Florida.

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America 250! and the time capsule was a great community event

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

What an exciting event last week’s America 250! time capsule event was!
The courthouse grounds were jammed on Thursday, July 2 with people interested in the digging up of the capsule buried in 1976 – and the one being buried to be exhumed in 2076.
I thought the most unexpected item in the 1976 time capsule was a poster of The Fonz from the Happy Days TV show.

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School board, COAST settle

The St. Marks charter school submits new application, pays district’s legal fees

Wakulla School Superintendent Rick Myrhe

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

The Wakulla County School Board and the Charter School for Arts, Science and Technology (COAST) in St. Marks have reached a settlement, it was announced at the school board meeting on June 15.
The school board voted at the meeting to accept COAST’s newly submitted charter application.
On the recommendation of Superintendent of Schools Rick Myhre, the school board voted to reject the application from COAST back in March.

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Charge against Kemp dropped before trial

Former county commissioner Mike Kemp

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

Days before former County Commissioner Mike Kemp was to go to trial on a felony charge of tampering with a witness, the state attorney’s office dropped the charge.
The state attorney’s office appealed another felony charge against Kemp, dismissed by the judge in the case, for using a public record to harass. That matter is still pending before the 1st District Court of Appeal.

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