Local News

Chiefland officials are moving toward plans to both sell water to Otter Creek and to develop what one day may be a southern expansion of the city.

March brought good news on the job front as the unemployment rate for Levy County dropped to a level not seen since July 2008 — 7.6 percent, according to a press release from Workforce Connection, the county's labor agency.

In July 2008 with the recession hitting Levy County, the unemployment rate was 7.7 percent and the rate continued to rise until it hit a peak 13 percent in January 2010. Since then the rate has wiggled around gradually dropping to its current level.

The Levy County Cattlemen and Landowners Association will have its spring meeting on Thursday, May 2, at 7 p.m. at Don Quincey's home on the Suwannee River. 

 Anyone interested in joining is invited to attend. For more information, call the Levy County Extension Office at 352-486-5131 or the secretary-treasurer at 352-528-3119.

Through April 30