Today's News

The Chiefland Women's Golf Association played golf on April 30 in probably the best weather of the year. Since our season ends in three weeks, we decided to play our favorite game. You get to throw out two bad holes on each nine, a total of four of your worst scores, then deduct one half of your handicap. Just pretend that those nightmare holes never happened. This is a golfer's dream outing.

No doubt about it, the second time around is more comfortable for everyone involved.

We're talking about high school football, of course.

Last year was Ajay Ulmer's first year as head coach at Chiefland High.

He was a seasoned coach with lots of enthusiasm and knowledge, but getting to know everyone and feeling comfortable in a new environment can go a long way toward reaching goals.

This year, Ulmer has a head start on things. He has worked with his staff for a year and now knows all the players and their work habits and capabilities.

The bitter taste of defeat in the district semifinals may still linger a bit for Chiefland High baseball coach Kyle Parnell, but the big picture tells the veteran mentor that 2008 was still something special.

When you finish 18-4, you have to be doing a lot of things right.

Parnell is mighty proud of the accomplishments of this year's bunch when he looks back at the number of quality players he lost to graduation in 2007.

"We came in with new players in six of the nine positions," said Parnell, who was 19-7 in 2007.

BRONSON-A half dozen residents waited patiently until the end of the Bronson Town Council meeting to ask when a sewer line would be available in their neighborhoods.

The answer?

It's going to be a while.

The existing sewer line in the town is a three-inch pipe, Councilman Berlon Weeks explained.

In order to make it useable for as many people who need to connect to it, that pipe must be replaced with at least an eight-inch pipe, maybe even a 12-inch pipe.

And in order to get the larger pipe, Weeks said, the town has to have more money in its coffers.