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Airport plans

Posted onFebruary 12, 2025February 11, 2025AuthorWilliam Snowden

County commissioners commit to moving forward with improvements

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

After years of battles over the fate of the Wakulla County Airport, a grass airstrip between Panacea and Ochlockonee Bay, the county commission voted unanimously last week to sign a letter to the state committing to own and maintain the airport.

Mayor Steve Remke submits resignation

Posted onFebruary 12, 2025February 11, 2025AuthorWilliam Snowden

Headed city through recent transitions, but says he needs to devote more time to his career

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

St. Marks Mayor Steve Remke submitted his resignation – effective immediately – on Tuesday, Feb. 4 in an email to fellow city commissioners.

‘Getting salty’ with teaching

Posted onFebruary 12, 2025February 11, 2025AuthorWilliam Snowden

Guy Harvey Foundation teams with Gulf Specimen to work with educators

Gulf Specimen’s Cypress Rudloe with Jessica Harvey and Steve Roden of the Guy Harvey Foundation.

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

Dozens of educators from around the region gathered at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab in Panacea on Friday and Saturday to get training from the Guy Harvey Foundation on resources for marine education.

Foreign teachers

Posted onFebruary 5, 2025February 4, 2025AuthorWilliam Snowden

After controversy a couple of years ago, school board votes 4-1 to take another look

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

Two years after rejecting hiring foreign teachers, the Wakulla school board decided to go forward with interviews for foreign teachers for the 2025-26 school year for vacant teaching positions.

Life in prison for murderer Jason Looney

Posted onFebruary 5, 2025February 4, 2025AuthorWilliam Snowden

Jury at resentencing finds for life; was originally sentenced to death for 1997 murders of Melanie King, Keith Spears

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

Jason Looney, one of three men convicted of the 1997 home-invasion double murder of Melanie King and Keith Spears, will be sentenced to life in prison for his crimes.

State of Wakulla

Posted onFebruary 5, 2025February 4, 2025AuthorWilliam Snowden

Wakulla County Administrator David Edwards led a lunchtime program put on by the Wakulla County Chamber of Commerce on what’s happening in the county.

Martin Luther King Jr. Ceremony

Posted onJanuary 22, 2025January 21, 2025AuthorWilliam Snowden

The Wakulla Christian Coalition held its annual Martin Luther King Jr. observance on the courthouse grounds.

Aaliya Williams wins districtspelling bee

Posted onJanuary 22, 2025January 21, 2025AuthorWilliam Snowden

Superintendent Rick Myhre with spelling bee runner up Ryan Steward and winner Aaliya Williams.

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

Aaliya Willliams, an 8th grader at Wakulla Middle School, won the district spelling bee on Friday, Jan. 17, with the word “sorbet” followed up by the word “university.”

Digital billboards get past first hurdle

Posted onJanuary 22, 2025January 21, 2025AuthorWilliam Snowden

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

A proposal to allow digital billboards in Wakulla County got approval from the Planning Commission on Monday, Jan. 13 – the first step in the process.

Woman charged with hit & run

Posted onJanuary 15, 2025January 14, 2025AuthorWilliam Snowden

She struck a 9-year-old boy on a minibike; he was hospitalized in critical condition, mother reports slow improvement

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

Alfreda Leshon Nelson, 44, was arrested on Thursday, Jan. 9, and charged with leaving the scene of a serious bodily injury.
Nelson is charged in the hit-and-run of a 9-year-old boy riding a minibike in his neighborhood. He was hospitalized with critical injuries, including a brain bleed.