Year: 2024
Property Appraiser forum 2024
BRIMNER RESPONSE TO STORY ON TAX ROLLS
Editor’s Note: Property Appraiser Ed Brimner submitted this statement to The Wakulla Sun for the story on the tax rolls, but it was received after the deadline. It is published here in its entirety.
Dear Mr. Snowden,
Thank you for reaching out to this office concerning post-roll analyses. As you noted, the 2021 analyses showed this office met all standards.
Read More …Fourth of July
PHOTOS BY GERALD BROWN
Lawsuit filed against former city commissioner
Company that’s buying refinery site claims Richard Chichetti illegally trespassed at Gadsden facility, then defamed the company to city officials
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
A Gadsden-based company, CDS Manufacturing, has filed a lawsuit against former St. Marks City Commissioner Richard Chichetti claiming he and his wife went to the company’s Gretna facility and took photos – and then warned city officials of possible problems if the city went through with selling the old Seminole Refinery site to CDS.
Read More …State questions Wakulla tax rolls
Department of Revenue cites ‘selective reappraisals’ in report
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The state Department of Revenue has issued a post-roll analysis that found issues with the 2022 and 2023 tax rolls and “selective reappraisals” for improved residential properties.
Read More …Political forums set
The Wakulla Sun’s next candidate forum will be held on Tuesday, July 16, at the public library beginning at 6 p.m. for candidates for for superintendent of schools and the school board.
Another forum for county commission candidates will be held Tuesday, July 30, at the library at 6 p.m.
Work putting in wells
Crews with James Stidham & Associates have been working in the area around the courthouse square for the past couple of weeks, installing monitoring wells in the area for the state Department of Environmental Protection.
Read More …10 arrested at alleged drug house
From Sheriff’s Office
On Wednesday, July 3, Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office Detectives and the Crime Suppression Unit, alongside investigators of the North Star Multijurisdictional Drug Task Force, the Leon County Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Agents of Homeland Security Investigations executed a residential Search Warrant as part of “Operation Ice Storm” Phase One.
Read More …Preparing for upcoming candidate forums
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
By the time you read this, we will have already held our first candidate forum – it’s set for Tuesday, July 9 at the Wakulla County Public Library.
Read More …