Today's Features

It was difficult to tell who was more nervous, the serviceman or the group of second-graders.

For more than an hour last week Dusty Cason answered questions from his penpals who all wanted to know more about his life in Iraq.

The students of Katie Corbin “adopted” Cason and this school year have kept him replete with letters from home and goody boxes.

Last week the soldier, on furlough, came by with his parents and grandparents to meet his new friends and answer their queries about the other side of the world.

On what was Day 14 of Barack Obama’s term as president, Chiefland’s Robert and Rutha Scott were as excited as if it were Jan. 20 all over again.

The Scotts, well known in West Levy County for their ministerial work and involvement in the black community, were animated in their speech and lively in their body language as they recalled their part in the inauguration of America’s first black president.

It all started back in November, the couple agreed.

BRONSON — Jackie Strickland was enjoying gently rocking in the chair.

“A buddy of mine got me started 10 years ago,” he said.

“I do all the work myself. It’s all hands on by me.”

“I log my own wood, mill it and cure it out,” he says. That’s an investment of a year’s time from cutting to rocking.

Strickland obtains his wood by taking down trees for property owners. He will cut the tree and haul the wood, he says, but the owners must haul the brush left by the job.

It was an evening like every other evening last week, as Linda Scoggins set out to enjoy her time away from work.

But about 6:30, she spied a visitor jumping across her fence on property she and husband, Ron, own off Hwy. 321 in Chiefland.

A baby deer sauntered into the yard and started making herself at home-by eating her flowers.

For more that 20 minutes she watched the deer feed and frolic through binoculars, then she came right up to her and yearned for affection.