Today's News

Levy County's unemployment rate dropped in April to 10.3 percent, a level not seen in the county since March 2009.
In April, figures released by CLM Workforce Connection, the contractor for the state's employment agency, show the number of residents in the work force was 17,237 with 15,458 employed and 1,779 unemployed.
That's an improvement on the March figures of 10.8 percent unemployment, with 17,415 residents in the civilian labor force of which 15,536 were employed and 1,879 were unemployed.

From staff reports

The Suwannee River Water Management District released its report of rainfall and surfacewater for the month of April.
Average rainfall was 2.62 inches, which is 79 percent of the long-term average of 3.32 inches. Eighty-percent of the month’s total rainfall fell during fronts on April 5 and April 28.
The average 12-month deficit of 1.49 inches was near the long-term average of 54.68 inches.

Special to the Citizen

The Suwannee River Water Management District has added a new gage to its real-time river level network.  
The Suwannee River at Noble’s Ferry gage, located at the County Road 249 Bridge between Suwannee and Hamilton counties, fills a 23-mile gap between the Ellaville and Suwannee Springs gages.

   In 2008, when Austin Allen was nine weeks old he was diagnosed with a rare disease, infantile acute myeloid leukemia.
   Today, Austin is a feisty, active boy who turns three years old in July thanks to five rounds of chemotherapy using a study drug researched, developed and funded by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.