Today's News

Levy County's jobless rate was down to 8.9 percent in April, a figure not seen since November 2008 — 41 months, and down from 9.4 percent in March and 10.5 percent a year earlier, according to Workforce Connection, the state's employment agency serving Citrus, Levy and Marion counties.

Did you miss out on the opportunity to buy Girl Scout thin mint, Samoa or Tagalongs cookies?
Well, good news, there is a Girl Scout Troop in Chiefland that has a stash of cookies that will give Girl Scout cookie lovers a second chance to buy those sweet morsels.
They have lots of cookies to sell and while you munch down on them you can know that you are helping support the activities that build better young women for our community.  Cookies are $4 per box.

The clock has started ticking on taking public comment on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers draft report on the Tarmac King Road mine's permit application under the federal Clean Waters Act.
The public has two opportunities to offer comments:
• A public meeting at the Inglis Community Center on May 31 at 7 p.m.
• By sending comments to the Corps until July 11.

A Chiefland man was bitten by an Eastern diamondback rattlesnake Thursday, May 10, while he was trying to reach for eggs in his chicken coop.
After the bite, he went to the Chiefland EMS station and was on the way to Gainesville when the anbulance was diverted to meet a Shands Hospital air ambulance in Bronson. The heicopter took him to the hospital.
Levy County Sheriff's Lt. Scott Tummond said the man killed the snake and brought it with him to the EMS station for identification purposes.  He said the snake was 5 to 5 foot 6 inches long.