For Autism Acceptance Month: ‘He stims’
By TAMMY DASHER
She sits on the edge of her seat, across the table from me, white knuckling her purse straps. The scene was familiar – long years of sitting across a table from pre-K teachers with worried frowns, or from special educators at endless meetings, or maybe the middle school principal when the bullying was so bad.
Read More …The Old Pro: Spring has sprung, it’s time to go fishing
By AL HARTMAN
Hope you all are doing well. There’s a lot going on.
If you haven’t got your turkey yet there’s still some time. Season closes April 26. Where I’ve been going for years turkeys have just disappeared. Foxes, raccoons, coyotes and Florida panthers have wiped them out. Hope your area is holding some.
So time to fish. They are really out there right now. Big trout and big reds are a plenty. Keeper trout are tight, but a few nice ones pop up here and there.
I tried something I heard about that will catch nice reds. I heard that they eat small snakes. So I went to my freshwater tackle box and grabbed a pack of long black rubber bass worms. It works. Not as well as a small or a chunk of a blue crab or surf crabs, but it works.
Library holds a Dr. Seuss-themed open house
Story & Photos By
LINDA ANN McDONALD
Correspondent
The Wakulla County Public Library hosted a Dr. Seuss themed Spring Open House and Community Partner Fair on Saturday, April 18.
Children enjoyed crafts, story time, face painting, interactive games such as Ring the Gack, The Green Eggs and Ham Race and Hop on Pop Scotch and Story Time. Guests also had opportunities to explore the library, meet the staff and sign up for a library card while enjoying grilled hot dogs, chips and a drink.
Gulf Specimen fundraiser Mermaids and Mimosas
Story & Photos By
LINDA ANN McDONALD
Correspondent
Gulf Specimen Marine Lab held its 3rd annual Mermaid and Mimosas fundraiser on Sunday, April 19th to raise funds for the aquarium and to support the Sea Turtle Hospital expansion.
GSML is a non-profit marine research and education organization and public aquarium in Panacea.
Wakulla Transportation fights on
Senior citizens travel in buses to Tallahassee where Commission for Transportation Disadvantaged rejects bids
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
Dozens of seniors from the Wakulla Senior Center loaded up on buses last week and traveled to Tallahassee to appear at the meeting of the state Commission for Transportation Disadvantaged – urging them to reject a recommendation that Big Bend Transit replace Wakulla Transportation in providing transportation services.
Read More …Special meeting set to declare local burn ban
Citing drought conditions, county commissioners will meet Wednesday, April 15 at 2 p.m.
Staff Report
The Wakulla County Commission has set a special meeting for Wednesday, April 15 at 2 p.m. to consider a resolution to declare a local state of emergency due to drought conditions and implement a county-wide burn ban.
The meeting will be held in the commission meeting room.
Paul Renner on affordability
Republican Gubernatorial candidate Paul Renner made his first stop to a rural county on his afforability tour, stopping by the old Wakulla County courthouse on Monday, April 13, for a roundtable.
Read More …Wakulla Academic team excels
The team scores second in the state
By BILL TAYLOR
Academic Team Coach
Wakulla High School has something to celebrate. The school’s Academic Team recently finished second in the state of Florida at the 2026 Commissioner’s Academic Challenge, competing against teams from school districts across the entire state.
It is the latest chapter in a proud tradition — the Wakulla Academic Team was founded by the Coastal Optimists Club more than 40 years ago, and has competed in all 39 editions of the Commissioner’s Academic Challenge since the tournament began in 1986.
Former teacher is charged with felony mischief
Jeffrey Duggar, who served prison time after death of child, is charged with damaging a church
By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor
Jeffrey Duggar, once a popular teacher at Wakulla High School who was later imprisoned for aggravated child abuse after a 15-month-old he took in was killed, was arrested in February for breaking out windows at Zion Hill Church.
Duggar was arrested on Feb. 23 after sheriff’s deputies were called about a man breaking out windows at the church.
