Today's News

Frank Buie won reelection to a second term on the Chiefland City Commission defeating challenger Alice Monyei 152 to 94 in Tuesday’s balloting at City Hall.

It was the third contest between the two for the Group 1 seat. Monyei defeated Buie in his first race in 2005 and he went on to defeat her in 2007.

Buie, a retired on a military disability, is known for his travels around the city on a motorized scooter with a bright orange pennant overhead.

“Milk,” according to an ad campaign in the early ‘90s, “does a body good.” But a body can only drink so much milk, and right now the market is literally flooded with the white, creamy beverage, causing the price to fall drastically. “It’s affecting the dairy men severely,”

Maggie Murphy, director of number services for Southeast Milk Inc., said in a phone interview on Friday. “They haven’t had prices this low since 1979. Meanwhile, their costs are from 2009.”

Levy County Education Association President Cindy Roach says a recent change to school board policy, designed to save the district money, could end up costing more than it saves.

In Tuesday’s meeting of the Levy County School Board, the board held a public hearing on three proposed changes to board policy.

The first, pertaining to a plan to return to weighted GPAs in order to more fairly determine valedictorians and salutatorians, passed with minimal comment.

Last week, the news came that the cash for clunkers program ran out of money in a week.

And there was just a hopeful murmur out of Washington that the recession may be bottoming out.

Here in Levy where more than 1 in 10 folks is unemployed, there might have been some agreement--especially in Chiefland where there are hopeful signs of an economy working hard to recover. Behind First Baptist Church, the $220,000 Harmony Baptist Pregnancy Center is being built.