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.”
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Author: William Snowden
Digital billboards get past first hurdle
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.
Read More …Woman charged with hit & run
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.
Woman gets 5 years in prison
Christy Wales hit, killed bicyclist Chesterfield Smith in 2021
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The woman who struck and killed a bicyclist on Shadeville Road back in September 2021 was sentenced to five years in state prison for vehicular homicide.
Read More …Advisory letter on tax roll
Second straight year of state Department of Revenue warning property appraiser of ‘sales chasing’
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The state Department of Revenue has issued an advisory letter to the Wakulla Property Appraiser’s Office that the 2024 tax roll showed signs of selective reappraisal.
The office also received an advisory letter the year before, for the 2023 tax roll, also citing selective reappraisal.
County’s legislative priorities
County commissioners set appropriation requests before start of session in March
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
Wakulla County Commissioners approved a list of priorities for the upcoming legislative session at a workshop back in December.
Some of the projects that commissioners will be seeking state funding for include:
Woman shot, killed
Wakulla, Leon deputies were at woman’s Sopchoppy home last week
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal shooting that occured when deputies responded to a call about a woman in Sopchopppy on Dec. 22.
Read More …Former sheriff Charlie Creel has died
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
Former Wakulla County Sheriff Charlie Creel died at his home in Moultrie, Ga., on Christmas Day. He was 71.
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Tough issues coming
School board faces two obsolete school properties, rezoning in January
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
Superintendent of Schools Rick Myhre gave school board members a heads-up that he will bring a couple of potentially controversial issues at their January meeting: the transfer of obsolete properties, and school rezoning.
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