By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
A number of potential candidates are filing to run for local elected office in 2024.
Constitutional officers, three county commission seats, and two school board seats are on the ballot this year.
By LEGION TAYLOR
Reporter
At the Sopchoppy city commission meeting last week, Lara Edwards stepped down as the city’s mayor.
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By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The winning word was “avens.” As in “plants of a genus of perrenial herbs with pinnate or hyrate leaves and flowers with long plumose persistent styles.”
And Kendyl Byrd, a 5th grader at Shadeville, won the district spelling bee by spelling it correctly.
Staff Report
Contractors installing fiber optic cables down the right-of-way on Arran Road reportedly broke a sewer line on Saturday, Jan. 13.
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Wakulla High School’s Breonne Murray and 44 students with 8 educations will soon head to National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, thanks to a grant from the American Battlefield Trust’s History Field Trip Grant Program.
Read More …By RYAN DAILEY
News Service of Florida
The Florida Senate on Wednesday passed a suite of bills aimed at “deregulation” of public schools, with one measure undergoing a significant change that nixed a provision related to the state’s third-grade literacy policy after it was heavily criticized by former Gov. Jeb Bush.
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Special to The Sun
To celebrate Florida Arbor Day, a drive-thru tree giveaway will take place on Saturday, Jan. 20th from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The giveaway will be outside the Wakulla County Extension Office at 84 Cedar Ave. Each vehicle will receive two young trees in pots for free.
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