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4-H issues call for proposals for Teen Leadership Summit

Posted onSeptember 3, 2025September 2, 2025AuthorSpecial to The Sun

Special to The Sun

Wakulla 4-H agent Rachel Pienta announced today that the organization would hold the first Teen Leadership Summit on October 13, 2025 at the Extension office in Crawfordville. This one-day event will feature workshops on financial management, leadership development, communications, interviewing, job preparedness, and more.

More than 300 visit 4-H Open House on Aug. 23

Posted onSeptember 3, 2025September 2, 2025AuthorSpecial to The Sun

Tammie Nason and Ethel Jefferson at one of the tables.

Historical program set on B.K. Roberts

Posted onSeptember 3, 2025September 2, 2025AuthorSpecial to The Sun

Special to The Sun

The Wakulla County Historical Society invites you to attend our program on the remarkable life of Wakulla’s own, Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court B.K. Roberts.
Attorney Fred Baggett will present the program on Tuesday, Sept 9, at 6 p.m., at the Wakulla County Public Library.

Senior Trip

Posted onAugust 27, 2025August 26, 2025AuthorSpecial to The Sun

TRAVELING TO DESTIN

On Friday August 8th The Wakulla Senior Center Chartered a bus and took a day trip to Destin.

Man charged with murder

Posted onAugust 20, 2025August 20, 2025AuthorSpecial to The Sun

Special to The Sun

Detectives of the Criminal Investigations Division at the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office arrested Shayne Dalton Sheffield, 31, for second degree murder.
On Sunday, August 17, at approximately 10:49 a.m., the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call reporting a shooting incident at a residence in Wakulla County.

Woman charged with kidnapping

Posted onAugust 20, 2025August 20, 2025AuthorSpecial to The Sun

Special to The Sun

On Friday, August 15, members of the Criminal Investigations Division and the Quick Reactionary Force of the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office arrested Helen Litchfield, 71 years of age, for three counts of kidnapping, three counts of aggravated assault, and one count of armed burglary.

Trees can be hazardous due to unseen problems

Posted onAugust 20, 2025August 20, 2025AuthorSpecial to The Sun

Homeowners are generally unaware of many of the circumstance that can make their trees hazardous. The vast majority of problems leading to structural failure in trees are not easily recognizable to the layman, but may have devastating potential. Photo by Les Harrison, FAMU Extension.

By ED DUKE and SAM HAND

Homeowners are generally unaware of many of the various circumstance that can make their trees hazardous.
If time is taken to look most people can see obvious structural problems as major decay in the main trunk of a tree. Still, the vast majority of problems leading to structural failure are not easily recognizable to the layman.
For example, genetic flaws, such as multi trunk trees like Bradford Pear, will lead to major failure as the individual trunks grow in girth and eventually push each other off.
Internal decay, which may only show a small fruiting conk on the bark, can be digesting the structural cellulose inside the tree.

Like people, aging trees aided by annual checkup

Posted onAugust 13, 2025August 13, 2025AuthorSpecial to The Sun

Just like people, trees change as they age. Sam Hand knows the better care given to the tree throughout its existence will likely lengthen its life and usefulness in a home or commercial landscape.

By MIKE CROSS, ED DUKE, and SAM HAND

Today’s media is replete with advertisement promoting pharmaceuticals and over-the-counter treatments to manage almost every imaginable malady plaguing humanity.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace now has Wakulla center

Posted onAugust 13, 2025August 13, 2025AuthorSpecial to The Sun

Volunteers Caden Gray with Robert Manning Sheriff Jared Miller, Kenny Manning, Commissioner Fred Nichols, Marty and Shannon Roberts, Steve Sanabria, Gibb Jones and in front President John Cousins announcing the Wakulla Distribution Center for Sleep in Heavenly Peace.

By REV. DR. BETSY GOEHRIG

Sleep in Heavenly Peace is a nationwide organization that believes that “a bed is a basic need for the proper physical, emotional and mental support that a child needs…. We are a national organization answering the call to a national problem.” Having a safe and comfortable place to sleep helps a child feel more secure and is better able to focus in school with a better night’s sleep.

SHARK GARDEN

Posted onAugust 13, 2025August 13, 2025AuthorSpecial to The Sun

Gulf Specimen Marine Lab has unveiled a new shark garden, landscaped with colorful flowers and plants by Primo Landscaping. The garden features life-size fiberglass shark models arranged among the flora, including a hammerhead shark, a great white shark and bull shark. (Photo special to The Sun)