Today's News

After establishing almost a year ago that a Chiefland sinkhole has a direct underground connection to Manatee Springs, state agencies said they have no plan in place to address the stormwater that feeds directly into the cavernous mouth located just blocks from City Hall.

A document from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection does, however, state that state agencies are still awaiting the completion of a Basin Action Management Plan (BMAP), which could call for testing of the water.  But the BMAP could be as far as 18 months from completion.

The Chiefland Area Athletic Association will be holding football and cheerleading signups every Friday night from 5:00 – 8:00 and Saturday mornings from 9:00 – 2:00 throughout the month of July.  We will be at Strickland Park.   Ages 7 – 12 may sign up.  Contact Billy Hinote at 949-0601 for more information.

It’s not as if the clients at LARC don’t have it tough enough with continual cuts in state funding, but having a thief steal the green bean crop they were planning to harvest and cook for lunch on Monday was just adding insult to injury.

Sometime between Friday when the Otter Creek Work Center closed and clients returned on Monday someone sneaked into the center’s garden and picked the bean bushes clean.

And the thief was picky ignoring the tomatoes, squash and eggplants the clients had planted and carefully nurtured.

William Samuel Yearty, 64, convicted of soliciting and accepting a bribe from an undercover FBI agent  posing as a developer wanting to build a project in Levy County and lying to the FBI in an interview, became inmate 20575-017 on Tuesday when he reported to the Federal Prison Camp in Pensacola.

The 30-year veteran of the Levy County Commission and it's chairman found himself among the facility’s minimum security inmates at Sauffley Field, a U.S. Navy base.