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Today's News

  • Yankeetown, Withlacoochee residents sue to stop Tarmac

    The Town of Yankeetown and the Withlacoochee Area Residents group are separately asking a judge to overturn the Levy County Commission's approval of a conditional special exception permit for the proposed Tarmac King Road mining project near Inglis.
    Yankeetown is petitioning for a writ of certiorari — basically a review of the commissioners' decision to grant the exception, while the Withlacoochee group is asking for an injunction on the grounds that the approval is inconsistent with the county's own Comprehensive Plan on environmentally sensitive lands.

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  • Levy high school graduates recognized by Plum Creek

    Plum Creek has awarded a $1,000 scholarship to three Levy County high school students.  Plum Creek annually awards scholarships to exemplary high school seniors who plan to continue their education after graduation.  The scholarships recognize demonstrated academic excellence, involvement in school and community activities and overall achievement throughout their high school careers.         The winners are:

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  • Scholarship winner

    The Levy Gilchrist Retired Educators Association presented its annual scholarship award to Amanda Mesa, center. Allison Pelletier, Mesa’s mother is on her left, while her grandmother Victoria Free sits on the right.

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  • Tri-County student on FIT dean's list

       Florida Institute of Technology announced Lindsey Hastie of Trenton  and Tyler Smith of Bell have been named to its Dean’s List for the spring semester 2009.
       To be included on the Dean's List, a student must complete 12 or more graded credits in a semester with a semester grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.4.

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  • SRWMD employee recognized for 10 years of service

       Linda Welch, of the Suwannee River Water Management District (District), was recently honored for 10 years of outstanding service. District Mission Support Director Melanie Roberts and Governing Board Chairman Don Quincey congratulated Welch at a governing board meeting June 14.  

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  • Bull's eye or taking aim

    George Meeks, of Chiefland, gives pointers as his son, Kade, shoots an arrow at a target Friday at the Diamond Sports Park in Gainesville. The Meeks were there for the District 4 softball tourney where the bow-and-arrow display was set up by the Easton-Newberry Sports Complex.

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  • UF researchers to study weight management plan in children through Levy extension

    This summer, researchers at the University of Florida will begin a study examining a weight management treatment program for children and their parents in Levy and surrounding counties in North Central Florida.

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  • Gettysburg being fought again

    [First of a three-part series]

    By DANIEL VANCE

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  • Mental health at Rotary

    Dr. Mark Johnson, director of development at Meridian Behavioral Healthcare, was the Chiefland Rotary Club’s June 8 speaker. Johnson said one of out every four people is at some time diagnosed with mental illness.
    “Looking at this crowd,” Johnson said laughing,” I think the odds are probably higher.”
    Johnson urged community members to become familiar with different forms of mental illness, an act that could end up saving a life.

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  • State trail gets national designation

    By A.B. SIDIBE
    Special to the Citizen
    The Withlacoochie State Forest Trail was designated as a National Recreation Trail by the U.S. Department of Interior on June 15.
    With the designation, the Withlacoochee State Trail joins Tom Varn Hiking and Jogging Trail in Brooksville as the 2011 Florida inductees in the National Recreation Trail program.

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