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Question of the Week

Posted onNovember 22, 2023February 9, 2024AuthorLynda Kinsey

Westerlund gets life in prison

Posted onNovember 16, 2023February 9, 2024AuthorWilliam Snowden

He murdered the mother of his child, Chelsea Bramblett, back in January 2020

Chad Westerlund entered a plea to second-degree murder for killing Chelsea Bramblett, with whom he had a child.

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

Chad Westerlund, who murdered the mother of his child as she sat nursing the child on a sofa, was sentenced to life in prison at a hearing last week.
Westerlund had entered a plea to second degree murder and a felony count of child neglect several months ago. At a hearing on Thursday, Nov. 2, Wakulla Circuit Judge Layne Smith ordered Westerlund to serve life in prison and to have no contact with his daughter.

Veterans Day parade

Posted onNovember 16, 2023February 9, 2024AuthorLegion Taylor

Wakulla loves a parade, and Veterans Day was observed with a parade down Crawfordville Highway on Saturday. Floats included the Coastal Optimist Club, above, and the Wakulla County School Board, right, and the Wakulla War Eagle cheerleaders, The parade was sponsored by the VFW Post 4538. (Photos by Legion Taylor)

City commission votes to remove Sheddan as mayor

Posted onNovember 16, 2023February 9, 2024AuthorLegion Taylor

City commissioners express concern that he exceeded powers of office

By Legion Taylor
Reporter

St. Marks Mayor Paul Sheddan was removed from office at the city commission meeting last week, as a result of a 3-0 vote from the members of the commission who were present. They selected Steve Remke to take over as Mayor of St. Marks in a following vote, which also passed 3-0.
Commissioners Dan Albers and Sheddan were absent from the meeting, leaving Mayor Remke, Commissioner Paula Bell, and Commissioner Sharon Rudd to decide on these issues.

4-H youth inspire with art and broadcasting

Posted onNovember 16, 2023February 9, 2024AuthorSpecial to The Sun

Tammie Naison, Keep Wakulla County Beautiful director; Lauretta Compton, 4-H member; Lesley Cushman, KWCB board member; Caden Gruebel, 4-H member; Steve Cushman, KWCB board member; Rachel Pienta, 4-H agent.

KWCB receives President’s Circle Award

Posted onNovember 16, 2023February 9, 2024AuthorSpecial to The Sun

Special to The Sun

In a gathering at St. Augustine, Keep America Beautiful affiliates from throughout the state, environmental enthusiasts, and experts came together for the Keep Florida Beautiful Annual Conference. The conference serves as a platform for the exchange of ideas, strategies, and innovations aimed at addressing the pressing environmental challenges facing our fragileth environment .

Weekly Roundup

Posted onNovember 16, 2023February 9, 2024AuthorNews Service of Florida

‘Never again’

By RYAN DAILEY News Service of Florida

TALLAHASSEE — It was heart-wrenching.
As the Florida House began a special legislative session Monday, Holocaust survivor David Schaecter offered an invocation and told of being an 11-year-old boy watching his mother and two younger sisters get gunned down by Nazis.