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Bronson election

    Voters go to the polls in Bronson to choose among six candidates for three seats open on the Town Council.

    Three incumbents face three challengers who say the choice is whether the town wants to stay the course or go with change to boost its prospects for the future.

    The races are:

    Seat One —  Challenger Jim Beck, a restaurant owner who heads the town's sewer committee, faces incumbent Aaron Edmondson, who works for a mail hauling company,

Scientists working with the state have determined that a Chiefland sinkhole that collects runoff water does in fact connect to Manatee Springs State Park and two other locations.

“As of today, we know that there is an absolutely unambiguous connection between the sink on (Northeast) Fourth Street and Manatee Springs,” Pete Butt, project manager for Karst Environmental Services, said.

It was just a few months ago that Duncan McCallum was sitting on his tractor working as he has for the last 15 years.

Today that work has come to a standstill, albeit a temporary one, as he fights a battle that even he can't see.

For the last several months, McCallum, 67, has been in and out of the hospital fighting an aggressive blood infection that has already cost him his right leg.

Bronson letter carrier Rose Conklin pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to failing to deliver more than 125,000 letters, newspapers and circulars over a six-year period that she worked with the U.S. Postal Service. She faces the possibility of a five year prison sentence, plus three years of supervised release, a $250,000 fine and a $100 monetary assessment.

As part of her plea deal she has agreed to pay the $100 assessment before her sentencing in November.