Today's News

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Fanning and Manatee Springs state parks and Nature Coast State Trail will host a Scavenger hunt throughout the park for Earth Day.
   Park Ranger Howard Meyer will read a book by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings called The Secret River before the hunt begins. The reading will take place on the stage located in the park from 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from there the hunt will begin. There will be prize for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place participants and everyone will receive a certificate of participation.  

Friday

Tax help
There will be a free tax preparation and e-file with AARP Tax Aide at Luther Callaway Public Library in Chiefland. Volunteers will be at the library between noon and 4 p.m.
For more information or to make an appointment, call 352-493-2758.

Friday — Saturday

HCE, Woodmen hold yard sale
The HCE Chiefland Club will hold a joint yard sale with the Woodmen Lodge of Trenton from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on State Road 26 in Trenton. The Woodmen Lodge will sell hotdogs and drinks.

A man being questioned about a tool theft by Levy County Sheriff’s investigators used his head as a battering ram and tore up the interview room he was in and threatened the officers, according to a Sheriff’s Office press release.
Jonathan Jerome Sager, 20, of Bronson, who was on probation on burglary and theft charges, now faces  violation of probation, grand theft, dealing in stolen property, criminal mischief, resisting arrest without violence and corruption by threats to law enforcement officers charges.

The Levy County Commission voted 3-1 Tuesday in favor of limiting the impact flavored tobacco products sold locally could have on area youth.
The resolution, drafted by high school students from around the county, asks that the commission support urging tobacco retailers to consider “the cessation of the sale and marketing” of such products, which, according to several students at Tuesday’s meeting, are aimed at getting teens hooked on nicotine.