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Today's News

  • Yankeetown must wait for answer on Tarmac

    The Town of Yankeetown argued its challenge to the Levy County Commission's conditional approval of a special exception permit for the Tarmac King Road limerock mine and now it is left to wait for a court ruling.
    Judge Robert E. Rountree Jr. said after hearing two hours of arguments from both sides on Monday he would issue a ruling but would not say when.

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  • Heat stroke hospitalizes Bronson public works director

    Bronson Public Works Director James Dunford is hospitalized at Shands Hospital in Gainesville after suffering a stroke on the job on Friday.

    He had finished working at the site of the new Dollar General Store and was discovered unconscious in his truck, according to a city official.

    Although temperatures were in the high 90s, the National Weather Service has said the heat index, a measure of the effect of high temperatures and high humidity, was over 100. 

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  • Chiefland to bid farewell to Alice Faye Henderson

    Alice Faye Henderson, 70, put off this earthly house on Aug. 2, 2011 and now lives in a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens  (11 Corinthians 5:1). Cancer ravaged her body but it could not conquer her spirit. 

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  • N.D. Couple raised four children with disabilities

    By DANIEL J. VANCE

    Disabilities

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  • Copy editor managing bipolar disorder

    By DANIEL J. VANCE

    Disabilities

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  • Palliative massage therapy offers gentle comfort to patients

    By JENNI WILLIAMS
    Special to the Citizen
    Palliative massage has become one of the fastest growing trends in therapy for hospice patients. Used as a method for relaxation to alleviate stress, anxiety and pain with a light hands-on approach, as well as providing an alternative to those who can’t take medication or prefer not to, palliative massage therapy has become essential in hospice care.

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  • Deadline near for Business of the Year

       The deadline tfor nominating a local business that merits the Greater Chiefland Ara Chamber of Commerce's Business of the Year Award is Aug. 10.
       Each year the Chamber honors outstanding businesses during the state’s annual observance of Industry Appreciation Week. This year's industry celebration begins Sept. 12 and the local Chamber will host a banquet Sept. 13 honoring two local, notable businesses.

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  • Editorial cartoon for August 4
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  • OUR VIEW: Closing the blinds in the sunshine

    All political power is inherent in the people.
    Article I, Section 1, Florida State Constitution

    All meetings of any collegial public body of the executive branch of state government or of any collegial public body of a county, municipality, school district, or special district, at which official acts are to be taken or at which public business of such body is to be transacted or discussed, shall be open and noticed to the public...
    Article I, Section 24 (b), Florida State Constitution

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  • Church news for the week of August 4

    Fish Fry fundraiser at Destiny
      WE SOAR Inc. will sponsor a fish fry fundraiser from 5-7 p.m. on Friday at the Destiny Church of God by Faith, 170 N.E. 9th St. Fish dinners cost $8 and will include fish, baked beans, cole slaw, bread and drink.
      All proceeds will benefit the organization's community projects, which include the upcoming Back-to-School Jamboree.
    For more information, call 352-361-6528 or 352-528-2170.

     UMC hosts epic summer bash

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