Staff Report
A Sopchoppy man was killed in single-vehicle crash on Tuesday, Aug. 4, just before 11 p.m., according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
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Candidate forum
BOCC candidates Quincee Messersmith and Carrie Hughes give views
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
Republican candidates for county commissioner district 4 appeared at a forum hosted by The Wakulla Sun last week.
Incumbent Quincee Messersmith and challenger Carrie Hughes shared their views at the event held Tuesday, July 28 at the public library.
Candidates were given 3 minutes to answer questions, but their answers were so brief that not once did either reach the limit and the forum was done after 35 minutes.
A video of the forum can be viewed at The Wakulla Sun website,Read More …
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Head of teachers union is pleased with district offer
Cassandra Johnson
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
Wakulla Classroom Teachers Association president Cassandra Johnson was effusive in her praise of the superintendent and school board in salary negotiations for this year: the offer was an increase for teacher salaries from monies from the Legislature with a match from the district, plus increase in supplements.
Read More …Audie Rowell is candidate for Congress
By AUDIE ROWELL
Special to The Sun
I am running for Congress in Florida’s 2nd Congressional District and I am a six-generation Floridian from right here in the Big Bend/Panhandle area. I am not a political insider, a lawyer or a career politician. I have been a public servant who has served Florida’s 2nd congressional district for nearly 40 years as a law enforcement officer, retiring as Chief Deputy.
The Wakulla Sun offers candidates the opportunity to announce their candidacy, and tell voters the issues that are important to them.Read More …
Welcome back
from Superintendent of Schools Rick Myhre
Rick Myhre
Greetings Wakulla County,
All communities provide public education, but few support and cherish their schools the way Wakulla County does. Perhaps that is because, for so many of us, these schools helped shape who we are, and we have purposefully chosen to raise our children here as well.
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Public schools
CRAWFORDVILLE
ELEMENTARY
School day: 8:55 a.m. to 3:20 p.m.
Alena Crawford, Principal
alena.crawford@wcsb.us
Lindsey Sparkman, Asst principal
lindsay.sparkman@wcsb.us
379 Arran Road,
Crawfordville FL 32327
Phone: (850 926-3641
Meet the new school staff
Kalli Brand, Nicole Messick, Elizabeth Porter
Administration Changes:
- Tim Wheeler (former principal of Shadeville Elementary) is the new District Administrator of Athletics at Wakulla High School
- Eden Rodgers (former Assistant Principal at Shadeville Elementary) is the new Principal at Shadeville Elementary
- Sarojanie Samlal is the new Assistant Principal at Shadeville Elementary.
1,000th sawfish tagged
From FWC News
Characterized by their long, flattened, toothed rostrum, often referred to as “the saw,” the smalltooth sawfish is the only species of sawfish found in Florida.
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