By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
A Wakulla County Jail inmate may have smuggled a handgun inside the facility when he was arrested – and had it inside the jail’s general population for more than a month, according to sources close to the matter.
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By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
David McQuary has made claims of being bullied before.
A couple of years ago, the former owner of Wildwood Golf Course complained that County Administrator David Edwards was not negotiating in good faith for the county to purchase the golf course, which the county wanted to use as a way to get rid of excess treated wastewater.
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
School board member Laura Lawhon was selected as chair of the Wakulla County School Board at its re-organization meeting last week. Eddie Hand was selected to serve as vice chair.
The re-org meeting was held prior to the school board’s regular monthly meeting on Monday, Nov. 17.
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Gregg Stanton, founder of the dive program at Florida State and a marine scientist, was honored by FSU Marine Lab at St. Teresa with a plaque designating the Gregg Stanton Dive Locker.
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By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The state Board of Education and Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas were in Crawfordville last week for the board’s November meeting, held at the Wakulla district office’s auditorium.
The meeting was held Thursday, Nov. 13.
BY WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
A new Wakulla County Public Library is in the works.
The facility will be built at the county’s community center property at the corner of Shadeville Hwy. and Trice lane.
Groundbreaking for the new library is Monday, Nov. 17 at 10 a.m.
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
Members of the Wakulla legislative delegation were in Crawfordville on Friday afternoon to listen to issues of local concern.
The delegation – Rep. Jason Shoaf, R-Port St. Joe, and Sen. Cory Simon, R-Tallahassee – held the meeting to hear requests before the start of the legislative session in January. Rep. Shoaf conducted the meeting, and Sen. Simon appeared by telephone as he was recouperating from back surgery.
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The Wakulla War Eagles head into the playoffs as the No. 6 seed and will travel to Jacksonville on Friday to take on the No. 3 seed Bishop Kenny Crusaders.
Wakulla finished the season as district champs with a 6-4 overall record, and 3-0 in the district.
BY WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The Sierra Club expressed its opposition to a land transfer between Wakulla County and the Apalachicola National Forest.
What had been proposed by the county commission more than a decade ago was a trade of a 200-acre parcel of forest land off Ivan Church Road for the 163-acre parcel owned by the county currently used as an equestrian center.
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The family of a Sopchoppy man, Tommie Webster, claim that Wakulla Fire Rescue paramedics refused to treat him after a 911 call to his home on Monday, Oct. 27 around 10:30 p.m.
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