Total contributions and expenditures:
Sheriff
- Jared Miller – monetary $78,479.28,
in-kind $6,800, expenditures $51,361.76 - Armand ‘Army’ Reyes – monetary $4,325, in-kind $64.50, expenditures $3,805.41
Year: 2024
Brimner withdraws
Property appraiser will finish term in office, but drops reelection bid
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
Wakulla County Property Appraiser Ed Brimner announced in a press release on Friday morning that he was withdrawing his candidacy for re-election.
Brimner said in the press release that it was “personal reasons.” In a brief phone interview with the Sun on Friday, he acknowledged an incident with a county human resources employee in which he was “exceedingly rude” in front of his whole staff.
Read More …Brimner’s statement
The full text of Brimner’s statement withdrawing from the race:
“Effective immediately, I am withdrawing from the Wakulla County Property Appraiser race for personal reasons.
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
Back to school
Monday, Aug. 12, started another school year, and students at Shadeville Elementary School were back in class. Superintendent of Schools Bobby Pearce said of the first day: “It was a good day. Good start.” He noted it appeared the district had unofficially increased enrollment by about 90 students. It was the first student increase since 2019. (Photo special to The Sun)
Wakulla Sands Golf course to open Friday
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
After a couple of years of work, the Wakulla Sands Golf Course is scheduled to open on Friday, Aug. 16 – kicking off with a golf tournament.
Read More …Mayor Steve Remke appointed acting manager
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
Since the sudden resignation of St. Marks City Manager Zoe Mansfield and city clerk Ethel Jefferson two weeks ago, the city commission voted to appoint Mayor Steve Remke as acting city manager.
Read More …Office spent $230,000 in 2021 on an appraisal system that didn’t work. Then had to spend another $240,000 for a new system that did.
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The Wakulla County Property Appraiser’s Office spent some $230,000 in 2021 and 2022 to purchase a computer-assisted mass appraisal system from a company called Vision.
When the system didn’t work, the office bought another system in 2023 from a company called GSA for $241,520.
Extension faculty offers array of programming for schools
By RACHEL PIENTA
4-H Director
Each school year, University of Florida faculty located at the Wakulla Extension office in Crawfordville offer school enrichment programming to all our area schools.
Read More …Weekly Roundup: Debby apreview of things to come?
By JIM TURNER
News Service of Florida
TALLAHASSEE – Recovery from Hurricane Debby will continue for weeks, but some people in the rural Big Bend were quickly back on their feet after going through a second lethal landfall in less than a year.
Read More …Local author to hold reading at library on Sept. 5
Special to The Sun
Local author Sabine Spencer has published a novel, “Distant Prayers,” and will hold a planned reading at the Wakulla County Public Library on Sept. 5.
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