Weekly Roundup: Senate puts bills on the rocks
By RYAN DAILEY
News Service of Florida
TALLAHASSEE — An effort to restrict what flags can be flown at schools and other public buildings flailed in the Florida Senate this week, after a key committee adjourned before members voted on the proposal.
Read More …$2.4M shortfall eyed
New hires frozen as county looks at dealing with budget hole
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
The county audit committee met last week to discuss the county’s financial status facing a $2.4 million budget shortfall because of the mistaken overvaluation of a lot in Lake Ellen for $307 million.
Read More …Moving – Downsizing Sale
Correction to a classified advertisement run without an address.
133 Jack Crum Road – Medart – Follow the Signs
Fri. & Sat, Feb 16 & 17 8 a.m. until
Lots of NEW ITEMS ADDED this week.
Furniture, ladder, dishes / platters, cookware, household, tools, nails/screws, metal shelving, electric trimmers.
So much more. Rain or shine!
Trophies given to widow
Judge orders UCF Coach Gene McDowell’s widow to get memorabilia
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
A family dispute over who rightfully should possess prized trophies of late coach Gene McDowell – a nephew who claimed to have bought the memorabilia from the coach’s son, or the coach’s widow – was decided with the items being awarded to Peggy McDowell, his widow.
Record number of permits, COs issued in 2023
Staff Report
Information from the county Planning and Community Development office shows that more housing building permits and certificates of occupancy were issued last year than ever before in Wakulla County.
Read More …Bill to make it harder to raise taxes backed
News Service of Florida
The Florida House continued moving forward Wednesday with a bill that could make it harder for cities and counties to approve property-tax increases.
Read More …Report of crashed aircraft turns out to be false
Staff Report
Last week, first responders were searching an area between Sopchoppy and Smith Creek after the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office received a call from Tyndall Air Force Base that a signal had been picked up indicating a plane had crashed in the area.
Read More …Valentine’s Festival this Saturday
Staff Report
The annual Rotary Valentine’s Festival kicks off the local festival season on Saturday with a parade at 10 a.m. followed by vendors and entertainment in Hudson Park. It’s the 25th year of the festival.
Friends of Library hold annual Mardi Gras celebration
Photos by William Snowden
