By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
A 48-year-old Shell Point man was arrested on Saturday, Dec. 16, after he allegedly made numerous threats to neighbors and was behaving erratically.
Deputies were called Saturday morning to Shell Point after neighbors of Matthew Williams heard him making threats and yelling strange things over the past several days.
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The Wakulla County Charter Review Committee finished its work last week and passed out a final report with five proposed amendments to the county charter.
Two of those may run afoul of state preemption laws and will likely not appear on the ballot in November: one proposal was to limit RV parks to a maximum of five units per acre; another proposal, which drew the most support from citizens, was to protect certain native trees that are 12 inches or larger.
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The Wakulla County Planning Commission voted last week to recommend that the county’s regulations on wellhead protection be amended to reduce a development buffer from 300 feet to 100 feet after representatives from local water companies said the buffer would create difficulties.
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By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The Rotary Club of Wakulla and the Wakulla Chapter of the Tallahassee Board of Realtors did a bed build on Saturday morning under the auspices of Sleep in Heavenly Peace and built 20 bunk beds for Wakulla kids who don’t have beds.
(Full disclosure: I am the president of the Rotary Club this year.)
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
After a two-day civil trial last week, a jury returned with a verdict of no damages for a man suing Dollar General for a slip-and-fall he suffered at the store on Spring Creek Highway back in March 2021.
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By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
A man from Clermont with illegal drugs in his system crashed and rolled a car while traveling in Wakulla County back on New Year’s Day 2020. A 17-year-old girl, also from Clermont and also with drugs in her system, was killed in the rollover crash.
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Editor
The St. Marks City Commission held a special budget meeting this week to pass resolutions to correct some problems with budget advertisements than ran in September.
Read More …Arrested for sexual battery on a child, investigation indicates he was allegedly going to the dark web to access child porn
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
It appears former Wakulla deputy Kenneth Malphurs may be the subject of ongoing investigation dealing with him accessing child porn on the dark web. That conclusion is based on The Wakulla Sun going through the criminal investigation file on Malphurs current charges of lewd and lasicivous sexual assault on a child younger than 12.
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By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The owner of a popular Tallahassee food truck and his fiancee were recently arrested and charged with numerous counts of shoplifting for stealing supplies from the Crawfordville Walmart.
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Editor
Three members of the public were at the Wakulla County Charter Review Commission’s Public Hearing on Tuesday, Nov. 14, to express their support for a proposed amendment to protect native trees in new development.
That amendment is one of five proposals – the others deal with impact fees, panhandling on road rights-of-way, how often the charter should be reviewed, and reducing the density of RV parks.