First ballots counted
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor GREEN COVE SPRINGS— Volunteers opened the first batch of mail-in ballots for the Nov. 8 general election on Monday, Oct. 17, at the Supervisor of Elections Office. Elec…
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Canadian firm creating 100 new jobs north of Lawtey
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— A Canadian-based manufacturer of construction materials is close to announcing a new plant near the intersection of US 301 and Clay County Road 218, four miles…
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Mining has been an economic boost for 70 years
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— Since the 1920s, residents and visitors to Kingsley Lake noticed that among the course white sand along the lake’s beaches, thin streaks of a black, silky subst…
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Chemours dedicates new plant
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— Chemours held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new $93 million Trail Ridge plant on Friday, Oct. 14, in conjunction with the Clay Chamber of Commerce. The compa…
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Teacher contract signed
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Clay County School Board Chair Mary Bolla and Clay Education Association President Vicki Kidwell ceremoniously signed the district’s new collective ba…
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Girlfriend breaks up, boyfriend steals canoe
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— Bradford deputies arrested a Keystone Heights man after a witness photographed him stealing a canoe from his ex-girlfriend. Jon Paul Shaver, 57, was arrested on…
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No make-ups for school days lost to hurricane
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor KEYSTONE HEIGHTS—Clay County Schools Superintendent David Broskie said students would not have to make up the three days of school lost to Hurricane Ian. He explained t…
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The power of independence
Challenge Enterprises CEO talks to Lake Region business group BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— At the October 6 meeting of the Keystone-Lake Region Business Association, the chief exe…
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Election myths busted
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Clay County’s Supervisor of Elections took on some of the most common myths surrounding elections during a presentation to the Keystone Heights Rotary…
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