Today's News

The city's business owners and workers will gather at the Tommy Usher Center on Tuesday to honor the Greater Chiefland Chamber of Commerce's  2009 Business of the Year: Jenkins Painting Inc. the folks who keep us driving between the lines.

    In a tradition that started in 1983 when then-Gov. Bob Graham proclaimed the third week in September as Industry Appreciation Week to help increase public awareness of the contributions of local businesses to their communities, the Chamber will mark the occasion by honoring one of the city's top employers.

Voters in Bronson have spoken: They are only in the mood for a little change.

In Tuesday's Town Council election, voters returned two incumbents to office and elected a  newcomer to politics to the third spot.

Jason Kennedy, manager at the Burger King in Chiefland and co-owner of a home-based business with his wife, handily won over incumbent Melody LaFlam 190 to 83.

The Levy County Commission, by a 3-2 vote, chopped its proposed EMS assessment in half Tuesday night after hearing from the business community that the six-cent per square foot rate was an undue burden in the downed economy.

The action came at the end of a two-hour hearing on assessments levied on property owners. The commission approved 4-1, with Commission Chair Nancy Bell dissenting, to keep the road, fire and solid waste assessments the same as last year.

The Humane Society of Levy County has received many requests for dogs and cats over the years, but a recent call from St. Petersburg College in Pinellas Park was a first.

The college was looking for 19 dogs and cats to be entered in the college’s Veterinary Technician program.  

“What are you going to do to these animals?” Arnette Garrison, the Society's Animal Rescue Liaison,  asked school officials.