Starke postpones reappointing manager
Question over manager/clerk duties BY MARK J. CRAWFORD mark@ytfwqrof.elementor.cloud Starke city commissioners are ready to restore the title of city manager to Drew Mullins, but a revamped ordinance…
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Will creek project to protect lake worsen flooding in Starke?
BY MARK J. CRAWFORD mark@ytfwqrof.elementor.cloud Starke is off the hook for maintaining the Edwards Bottomlands wetlands restoration project, but questions remain about the perpetual maintenance of t…
Read MoreClock ticking for WWTP contractor
BY MARK J. CRAWFORD mark@ytfwqrof.elementor.cloud While Starke’s wastewater treatment plant is online and operational, the project has yet to reach completion, so the city is pursuing liquidated damag…
Read MoreObituaries — Aug. 19, 2025
Judy Alderman E. Gypsy “Judy” Alderman passed away in the evening of Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, peacefully in her sleep at home in Hampton. She was born April 26, 1936, in Meadow Bridge, West Virginia, t…
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Recent arrests in Bradford, Union and Clay
The following individuals were arrested recently by local law enforcement officers in Bradford, Union, or Clay (Keystone Heights-area) counties. All defendants are considered innocent until convicted…
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Tried to steal boat motor
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com Thomas Cole Smith, 27, of Starke, was sentenced to four years with the Department of Corrections after pleading to burglary, attempted grand theft, possession of…
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Burglar caught by camera
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com A 25-year-old Homestead man was sentenced to 70 days in jail and three years’ probation after he pleaded to breaking into a surveyor’s work truck and stealing too…
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Six years for mail theft, pimping from jail
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com A 44-year-old Starke man was sentenced to six years with the Department of Corrections after pleading to living off the earnings of a prostitute and stealing U.S.…
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Jail and probation for throwing TV
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com A Lake City woman who attacked her victim while the man was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher was sentenced to 49 days in jail and three years’ probation. Audrena…
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