Today's News

The challenge to the city's awarding of its garbage pickup is going back to step one because of a protest by the losing vendor WCA of Gainesville.

On Monday, City Attorney Norm Fugate advised the city that the protest filing meant it could go to a hearing with a hearing officer or the city could rescind its action awarding the contract, reject all the bids it received and start the process all over.

Friday’s football game at Wayne Pridgeon Stadium between Chiefland and Arlington Country Day was a gold-out game, in tribute to Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in September.

To mark the occasion, football players laid flowers at the feet of Ashley Isenhoward, a Chiefland student who survived a tumor to the pulmonary artery, as she stood with the cheerleading squad for the team’s entrance through the teepee in the east end zone.

Senior Chiefland receiver Eli Scozzaro has to pick his spots carefully when pleading with his head coach and offensive offensive coordinator, Aaron Richardson, to call his number in the passing game.

When the Arlington Country Day football team made the trip from Jacksonville to take on Chiefland last Friday, it ran into a team full of pent-up energy, hankering to face someone in a different jersey.