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Former Bradford super set to take on same role in Lake
Ten years after the end of his one four-year term as Bradford County’s superintendent of schools, Chad Farnsworth gets his chance to lead in that capacity again as he was hired to become Lake County’s…
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Starke Kiwanis hears about mental health in schools
Sabrina Howland visited the Kiwanis Club of Starke on Oct. 20, presenting a program on her job as mental-health coordinator for the Bradford County School District. Howland, a lifelong Bradford County…
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BHS Class of 1976 celebrates 50th-year reunion
BY LIZ SCOTT GARZA Class of 1976 On Oct. 16 and 17, the Bradford High School Bicentennial Class of 1976 celebrated its 50th-year class reunion with a weekend of memorable activities that will be talke…
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KHHS’ Brooks golfs at Region 2-1A tourney
Keystone Heights High School’s Aubrey Brooks played in the Region 2-1A girls golf tournament at Twin Rivers Golf Club in Oviedo on Nov. 9, placing 31st out of 61. Brooks, who was an at-large qualifi…
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Union faces another run-heavy team in next round
It’ll be a collision of two run-heavy offenses when the Union County High School football team travels to Callahan to play West Nassau in a Sunshine State Athletic Association state semifinal game on…
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Tigers ride run game, defense to 28-21 win
BY LISA HOLTZENDORF Special to the Telegraph-Times-Monitor A sea of fans wearing purple and gold filled the stands at Jacksonville’s Paxon School for Advanced Studies, hoping to see the Union County H…
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Judge finds Starke man in online child-sex sting case incompetent to stand trial
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] A St. Johns County judge has found a Starke man accused of trying to arrange sex with a child through an undercover St. Johns County sheriff’s investigator incompe…
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Keystone Heights man arrested after neighbor’s camera captures him beating puppy
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] A Keystone Heights man was arrested Oct. 4 on an animal cruelty charge after a neighbor’s doorbell camera recorded him whipping, kicking and throwing his 15-week-o…
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18 months in prison in 2022 burglary, gun theft
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] A Starke man has been sentenced to 18 months in state prison for breaking into a Starke home in 2022 and stealing a handgun, under a plea deal that reduced the bur…
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Obituaries — Nov. 10, 2026
Richard Bakker Richard William Bakker of Keystone Heights was born on Aug. 12, 1971, and died Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. Arrangements are under the care of Jones-Gallagher Funeral Home, 340 E. Walker D…
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Obituary: Rosa Desue
Rosa Beatrice Desure, 77, a native of Starke, who lived in Tampa, and was the daughter of the late Leo Sr. & Beatrice Tyson-DeSue, submitted to the Will of God on Sunday, Oct.18, 2026 while at Ta…
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Lester Crawford Lester Crawford passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, at Haven Hospice in Gainesville after a brief illness. He was born Nov. 2, 1937, in Plant City and lived a life marked by steady…
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