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County sets July 21 town hall on property tax amendment; Kornegay projects $5.4 million loss
Bradford County commissioners will hold a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, at the Charley Johns Conference Center to lay out what a property tax amendment on the November ballot would me…
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County, fair association settle open carry lawsuit; fairgrounds must allow lawful carry
The lawsuit over a ban on openly carried firearms at this year’s Bradford County Fair has been settled, with the Bradford County Fair Association agreeing to allow open carry at the fairgrounds and th…
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Nugent honored for 20 years of service
What was billed on the agenda only as a mystery “presentation” turned out to be a surprise honor for one of the city’s longest-serving elected officials. At the July 7 meeting of the Starke City Commi…
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Starke holds millage rate, searches budget for cuts
Starke city commissioners spent the evening of July 7 discussing a tight fiscal year 2027 budget and voted, later that same night, to hold the city’s property tax rate steady for another year. The ses…
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Sheriff returns $968,521 to county; audit comes back clean
Bradford County Sheriff Gordon Smith handed over a check for $968,521 at the July 7 county commission meeting, returning unspent funds from his office’s fiscal year 2025 budget on the same morning aud…
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Bradford loses district B by a single point as state raises grading bar
Bradford High grade withheld The Bradford County School District earned a higher share of points on its state report card this year than it did a year ago — and still lost the B it worked more than a…
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Area students post regional bright spots on state tests
Sixth graders across the region turned in some of the area’s strongest scores on Florida’s end-of-year assessments, middle school algebra students in Union and Bradford counties far outpaced the state…
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