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Today's Features

  • The Suwannee Valley Players will hold auditions for the summer youth program at the Chief Theatre starting this weekend. This year, the productions will be Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Joseph Robinette’s “The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf.” Auditions will be held on Saturday, May 18, at 10 a.m. and Tuesday, May 21 at 7 p.m. at the Chief Theatre, 25 East Park Avenue in Chiefland, FL.    

  • The Suwannee Valley Players will hold auditions for the summer youth program at the Chief Theatre starting this weekend. This year, the productions will be Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Joseph Robinette’s “The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf.” Auditions will be held on Saturday, May 18, at 10 a.m. and Tuesday, May 21 at 7 p.m. at the Chief Theatre, 25 East Park Avenue in Chiefland, FL.    

  • Barefoot in the Park, a Neil Simon play, opens its two-weekend run on Friday, May 10, at the Chief Theater in Chiefland. The Suwannee Valley Players have a special ticket deal for the Mother’s Day performance on Sunday, May 12, at 2:30 p.m. that includes admission to the play and a full buffet luncheon at The Gathering Table restaurant in Chiefland prior to show. Tickets at $20 each must be purchased in advance from a ticket outlet or by calling 352-493-ARTS.

  • Barefoot in the Park, a Neil Simon play, opens its two-weekend run on Friday, May 10, at the Chief Theater in Chiefland. The Suwannee Valley Players have a special ticket deal for the Mother’s Day performance on Sunday, May 12, at 2:30 p.m. that includes admission to the play and a full buffet luncheon at The Gathering Table restaurant in Chiefland prior to show. Tickets at $20 each must be purchased in advance from a ticket outlet or by calling 352-493-ARTS.

  •  National Tourism and 

  •  National Tourism and 

  • Today

    Beekeepers meeting
    The Levy County Beekeepers Club meets the first Thursday of the month at 7 p.m., 4 W. Park Ave., Chiefland. Anyone interested in bees or beekeeping is welcome to attend. Experienced beekeepers will be available to answer questions, share ideas, experiences and much more. No need to be a beekeeper to attend, just have an interest in saving the honeybee and other pollinators.
    For more information, call Byron Teerlink at 352-493-2216 or Chappie McChesney at 386-462-2637.
       

  •    Harry Rouse, of Chiefland, was honored recently by Hospice of Citrus County Inc./Hospice of the Nature Coast for his "outstanding volunteer service" during 2012.
    Rouse, who has been a volunteer with the Hospice Thrift & Gift Shoppe in Chiefland for three years, contributing 1,071.5 hours of his time during 2012, was characterized as being “always friendly, always helpful, always eager to work and always available to support the thrift shop when needed.”

  •    Printing plates from the April 4 issue of the Chiefland Citizen were two items, among other things, included in the City of Chiefland's time capsule, buried in a ceremony April 6 as part of the city's centennial celebration.
       Pictured, from left, Chiefland Citizen, Cedar Key Beacon and Tri-County Bulletin General Manager and Suwannee Valley Rotary member Tom Ten Broeck and area dentist and fellow rotary member Dr. Robert Mount.

  • As many as 10,000 people are expected in Williston this weekend when Crabfest 2013 gets under way.

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