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St. Patrick’s Parade & Festival is Saturday

March 12, 2025 / Staff Report

Staff

The annual Lions Club St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Festival is Saturday, March 15.
The parade begins at 10 a.m. and travels down U.S. Highway 319.
After the parade, there will be arts and crafts vendors, food and entertainment at Hudson Park until 2 p.m.
See ad on Page 15 of this issue.

Women celebrated at Palaver

March 12, 2025 / Gerald Brown

Poet Barbara Hamby. (PHOTOS BY GERALD BROWN)

Wakulla High doubles fundraising for FSU dance marathon

March 12, 2025 / Special to The Sun

Special to the Sun

Wakulla High School students came together for a cause, raising an impressive $3,014.17 for the Florida State University Dance Marathon – doubling their contribution from last year.

Don’t miss WCT’s ‘9 to 5 – The Musical’

March 12, 2025 / Lynda Kinsey

The cast of ‘9 to 5 – The Musical’ at a recent performance. (PHOTO BY JEANETTE BURDETTE)

By LYNDA KINSEY
Sun Staff

Wakulla Community Theater’s production of “9 to 5 – The Musical” was incredible!
If you didn’t see it last weekend, you have another chance on Saturday night, March 15th, at 7 p.m. and the Sunday matinee at 3 p.m. at the historic Sopchoppy auditorium.

Question of the week

March 12, 2025 / Lynda Kinsey / 0 Comments

Weekly Roundup: Leaning into the 2025 Legislative session

March 12, 2025 / estanton

By JIM TURNER
News Service of Florida

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis opened Florida’s 2025 legislative session this week by calling for lawmakers to revamp the ballot-initiative process, curb property taxes and revisit gun laws.

Thaxton, Haynie place at state championship

March 12, 2025 / Special to The Sun

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Matthew Thaxton’s reaction to pinning St. John Neumann’s William McGowan and placing 7th at the state championship. (PHOTOS BY DEDE JOLICOEUR)

By WALT JACOBS
Correspondent

In Plato’s Republic, Socrates said: “The person who blends physical training most beautifully with music, and applies them to the soul with the utmost measure, is the one we may rightly declare to be perfectly musical, and well harmonised in the highest degree, much more so than anyone who tunes the strings of an instrument.”

23 dogs seized in two incidents

March 5, 2025 / William Snowden

Five seized at home off Ace High Stables; 18 seized from bus in Crawfordville

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

The Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office and Wakulla Animal Control were involved in two different incidents last week in which a number of dogs were seized.
On Tuesday, Feb. 25, the sheriff’s office was alerted to possible abuse of dogs at a home on Walden Way, off Ace High Stables in a TikTok video also posted to Facebook.

HazMat called from Tallahassee for deputy

March 5, 2025 / Staff Report

There was concern the deputy had been exposed to fentanyl during a drug search

Staff Report

A Hazardous Materials team from the Tallahassee Fire Department was called to assist the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office last week after a deputy suffered posssible chemical exposure.

Wakulla Wonderful is Saturday

March 5, 2025 / Special to The Sun

By RACHEL PIENTA
Wakulla 4-H Director

Quincee Messersmith cuts birthday cake at the 2023 Wakulla Wonderful.

The Wakulla Wonderful event is back! On Saturday, March 8, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wakulla 4-H invites the Board of County Commissioners, all elected county officials, our business community and all citizens to join Wakulla 4-H at the Wakulla County Courthouse Square on High Road for a celebration of Wakulla’s founding and community history.

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