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The overwhelming majority of children in Levy, Dixie and Gilchrist County who enter foster care have to leave the Tri-County area.

That was a major takeaway from a talk last Thursday by Michelle Giordano, the foster care recruitment specialist for Partnership for Strong Families, at a meeting of the Suwannee Valley Rotary Club in Chiefland.

Giordano reported that there are 31 children from the Tri-County area currently in licensed foster care homes; 87 percent of those children are living outside the county they're originally from.

Three Bronson Town Council seats are up for election Sept. 12. Up for reelection are Aaron Edmundson, seat one; Beatrice Roberts, seat 3; and Mayor Bruce Greenlee, seat five.

An email was sent to all three candidates. Mayor Greenlee, a lifelong resident of Bronson, wrote in his response that he has served four years on the council though he has worked in government for over 30 years in the Road and Bridge Department for 29 years. He was the administrative superintendent for 11 years.

How many people remember the mosquito spraying trucks of their youth? Were you one of the kids that, when hearing the distinctive sound made from the propulsion of fog emitted from the truck, ran out into the haze, running directly behind the truck to be engulfed in the white fog?

It’s a memory many older Floridians share. Thankfully parents today are more aware of the chemicals in the environment and educate children to be aware of chemicals that may harm them.

 Investigators responded to Inglis Villas at 33 Tronu Drive in Inglis July 6 after the maintenance worker found evidence someone intentionally set a fire in the laundry room. The laundry room is connected to the administrative offices and could have been occupied at the time. A law enforcement officer employed by the LCSO who lives in the Villas directed investigators to a potential suspect, Seth Lee Myers (7-17-98).