Year: 2024 (Page 9 of 60)
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A handful of dedicated volunteers showed up on Saturday, November 2nd to add new plants to Sopchoppy Depot Park.
Continue readingBy JIM TURNER
News Service of Florida
TALLAHASSEE – Florida candidates up and down the ballot made their final pitches this week in the runup to Tuesday’s general election.
As of Friday morning, 6.73 million voters — roughly 48 percent of the 13.95 million Floridians registered to vote — had already cast their ballots.
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Wakulla reaches $47,500 pay for new teachers mandated by state
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The Wakulla County School Board unanimously approved a new contract for teachers at their meeting on Monday, Oct. 21, which includes a starting salary for new teachers of $47,500.
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Monday’s school board meeting was the last for Melisa Taylor, who has served on the board for 12 years, and served as a teachers for 24 years. She was presented with a plaque by Superintendent-elect Rick Myhre and joined by school boaard members Josh Brown, Cale Langston, Eddie Hand and Laura Lawhon. (Photo by William Snowden)
By DARA KAM
News Service of Florida
With voters already casting mail-in ballots, candidates in a hotly contested North Florida legislative race squared off on Oct. 15 as Democrats try to chip into Republicans’ supermajority in the state Senate.
Continue readingIn a story last week on the Wakulla County Historical Society’s annual banquet, the wrong name was given for the Anne Quick Stewart Volunteer of the Year Award winner: It was Bernita Mack.
We regret the error.
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The school district held a ribbon-cutting last week for the new War Eagle Career and Technical Academy, to officially open the facility.
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