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Today's News

  • AAA honors Levy students as region's finest

    Two Levy County 5th grade students have been chosen among the Top 3 Safety Patrollers of the Year for the Southeastern U.S. More than 2,000 participate in the AAA Safety Patrol Program each year. 

  • Traffic fatality is 9th for 2013

    A Morriston man is dead and a Williston woman is hospitalized with serious injuries after a crash on Wednesday shortly before 11 p.m. on State Road 121 south of County Road 464, according to a Florida Highway Patrol press release.

    Brian Rodgers, 47, was pronounced dead at the scene by Levy County Emergency Medical Service personnel.

  • Woman sentenced in motorcyclist death

    It was almost two years to the day of a fatal accident south of Chiefland that caused the death of motorcyclist Marvin Hancock that Imogene Swafford was sentenced on a charge of negligent vehicular manslaughter.

    On Wednesday, Circuit Judge Stanley Griffis III meted out three years and six months in prison, followed by two years community custody and eight years of drug offender probation. She will receive credit for serving seven months and 22 days in jail.

  • College assured

    Kierra Langford and Wyatt Roberson, both fifth grade students at Chiefland Elementary School, were presented with $4,000 scholarships to the College of Central Florida by Levy County School Superintendent Robert Hastings.

    Langford received the Robert O. Hastings Scholarship and Roberson received the Jack Wilkinson Scholarship in honor of Coach Doyle McCall.

  • 4-H enrolling for sumer camp

    The Levy County 4-H Office is enrolling children for summer day camps. All campers must be at least 8 years old by the date of the camp. 

  • Chiefland enrolling kindergarten students

    Chiefland Elementary School is now accepting the kindergarten enrollment packets for the 2013-2014 school year.

    Summer office hours at the school are Monday-Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.  

  • What a difference: before and after Tropical Storm Andrea

     The Keetch-Byram Drought Index estimates the dryness of soil. It increases each day without rain.

    This graphic shows how Levy County's score dropped by half due to the rains from Tropical Storm Andrea. 

     

  • ARC of Levy County gets a little TLC

    Recently, employees of Central Florida Electric Cooperative, Inc. donated materials and several days worth of work to help make the ARC of Levy County (ARC) a little bit nicer.

  • Crab Fest suspect indicted

    Devonte Tremaine Ocasio, who turned 20 on Tuesday, was formally re-arrested on Tuesday on a six-count indictment delivered by a Levy County Grand Jury on Friday afternoon.

    Ocasio is charged in the death of Barry Barney, 36, who died after being shot at the Williston Crabfest. Four other people were injured in the shooting on April 27. 

  • Farm Bureau to build "home" for FFA in Gainesville

    Florida Farm Bureau President John Hoblick has announced that the statewide organization will lead a bold partnership to build a new headquarters for the Florida FFA Association, according to a press release from the Farm Bureau. The facility will be constructed on Florida Farm Bureau’s campus in Gainesville.

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