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BRONSON –Bronson Town Council members got a visit from the new president of the Greater Bronson Area Chamber of Commerce –Cameron Asbell –at Monday night's meeting.

Asbell explained how the chamber is reorganizing and how it would like to be the "right hand to Town Council."

Asbell said the focus is on building up Bronson's economic base.

"We're working on grants for economic development," Asbell said. "We need a current audit for that to happen."

BRONSON - Southern Levy County residents pleaded with their leaders to reject a request for a special exception to allow a giant mine in the Gulf Hammock area.

County Commission Chairman Sammy Yearty told the group, led by Betty Berger of Inglis, that the commission would listen to them. Until the quasi-judicial hearing where the commission would decide whether to grant the special exception to zoning, however, the commissioners cannot comment about the issue.

There are advantages and disadvantages in living in a tiny community a good distance from a bigger town.

On the down side are higher insurance rates, as lagging fire fighting services don't sit well with Insurance Services Office (ISO) folks.

The ISO?s public protection classification program evaluates communities according to a set of criteria defined by a Fire Suppression Rating Schedule.

Towns are rated on a 1-10 scale, the lower number the better.

Johnnie Pendarvis, Levy County Landfill Recycling Coordinator, said that there are 26 recycling trailers strategically dotting the county.

"We've got them from Morriston to Inglis to Fanning Springs," he said.

They are there for residents to put their aluminum, tin cans, plastic bottles and newspapers for recycling.

Recycling helps in many ways. It relieves pressure on the landfill, plus the county receives a small fee for the recyclables according to weight.

There are two things Pendarvis stresses.