Weekly Roundup: A step closer to living healthy
By RYAN DAILEY
News Service of Florida
TALLAHASSEE — Just two weeks into the start of the 2024 legislative session, House and Senate leaders’ major priorities are sailing through the process — with Senate President Kathleen Passidomo seeing one of her wish-list items pass in the upper chamber on Thursday.
Read More …Election 2024
A number of candidates have already filed to run for local office
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
A number of potential candidates are filing to run for local elected office in 2024.
Constitutional officers, three county commission seats, and two school board seats are on the ballot this year.
MLK Day observed
Edwards steps down as mayor
By LEGION TAYLOR
Reporter
At the Sopchoppy city commission meeting last week, Lara Edwards stepped down as the city’s mayor.
Read More …Kendyl Byrd is district spelling bee champion
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The winning word was “avens.” As in “plants of a genus of perrenial herbs with pinnate or hyrate leaves and flowers with long plumose persistent styles.”
And Kendyl Byrd, a 5th grader at Shadeville, won the district spelling bee by spelling it correctly.
Tornado passed over Wakulla last week in storm
Emergency Management reports tracking the tornado on radar but it didn’t touch down
Read More …Sewage spill reported on Arran Road
Staff Report
Contractors installing fiber optic cables down the right-of-way on Arran Road reportedly broke a sewer line on Saturday, Jan. 13.
Read More …Wakulla High students receive grant for historical travel
American Battlefield Trust will fund field trip to visit National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel
Special to The Sun
Wakulla High School’s Breonne Murray and 44 students with 8 educations will soon head to National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, thanks to a grant from the American Battlefield Trust’s History Field Trip Grant Program.
Read More …Florida senate passes scaled-back school ‘deregulation’ plan
By RYAN DAILEY
News Service of Florida
The Florida Senate on Wednesday passed a suite of bills aimed at “deregulation” of public schools, with one measure undergoing a significant change that nixed a provision related to the state’s third-grade literacy policy after it was heavily criticized by former Gov. Jeb Bush.
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