Thankful for emergency response, prayers

  • March 16, 2022
  • Mark J. Crawford

Dear Editor: My name is Christian Lee. I am from Lake Butler, and March 18 will be three years ago that a tree fell on my car as I was on my way to work. No wind. No rain. The tree was a healthy, livi…

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KH welcomes postmaster

  • March 16, 2022
  • Mark J. Crawford

Dear Editor: It is a great honor to serve Keystone Heights, Florida, as your new Postmaster. | have seen firsthand the role the Postal Service plays connecting neighbors and our community to the natio…

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Voting is everyone’s right

  • March 9, 2022
  • Mark J. Crawford

Dear Editor: The  14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1868 and provided citizenship to all those who were born or nationalized in the United States. This amendment provide…

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Vote in the mid-terms

  • March 9, 2022
  • Mark J. Crawford

Dear Editor: For those of us who lived during the ‘70s we remember the long gas lines, financial instability, Iran hostages, and saying that there would never be a president as bad as Jimmy Carter. We…

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County top cop no tenderfoot, but tender hearted

  • March 9, 2022
  • Mark J. Crawford

Dear Editor: Sheriff Gordon Smith has taken a personal interest in helping find forever homes for dozens of cats. Recently, I heard about a “cat shelter” a little more than a mile from my home-as the…

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Let’s talk about the facts

  • March 2, 2022
  • Mark J. Crawford

Dear Editor, The recent county commissioners workshop was hosted to allow the commissioners to hear directly from the public on their feelings concerning our implementing an electric franchise fee, on…

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Would like answers

  • March 2, 2022
  • Mark J. Crawford

Dear Editor; Why do county “responses” always lead to even more questions? At the Feb. 7 BOCC meeting, I confronted the commissioners to provide an explanation for the misinformation they, and the pub…

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Make do with what you have

  • February 23, 2022
  • Mark J. Crawford

Dear Editor: It seems this Board of County Commissioners and other folks running county departments have short memories. Almost three years ago, a proposal to levy a tax on the citizens brought a pack…

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