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Looking back: Starke celebrates 100 years
Editor’s note: Information for this story was taken from the Bradford County Telegraph’s centennial issue. With the impending centennial celebration of the city of Keystone Heights in 2025, the Tele…
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Looking back: Blanding grows out of ‘sand and swampland’
A picture may say 1,000 words, but a photo that was published in the Dec. 15, 1939, issue of the Bradford County Telegraph didn’t even come close to describing what was taking place east of Starke. Th…
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Mission of the Dirt Road hosts UF/IFAS mindfulness activity
Participants explored creativity and self-reflection during a hands-on shell-art activity led by the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences on June 30 at Keystone Heights’…
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Science Bus inspires young minds at Starke summer camp
Students attending the Concerned Citizens Summer Day Camp continued building their reading, math and science skills as the Science Bus returned to the RJE Center on June 26, bringing hands-on STEM a…
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Superintendent traces Union County school history as new elementary school takes shape – Ripplinger recounts era of 25-plus community schools, integration in 1968 and the district’s coming consolidation to two campuses
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com Union County School Superintendent Mike Ripplinger walked the Union County Historical Society through more than a century and a half of local school history on Ma…
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It all started 101 years ago for Keystone Heights – The majority of the area settlers moved from Pennsylvania before the city was founded in 1925.
One hundred, one years ago, the town of Keystone Heights was founded. For much of its history, Keystone was a sparsely populated community. The majority of the original settlers came from Pennsylvania…
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Keystone Inn was social hub until 1954 fire
BY TRACY LEE TATE Special to the Monitor The old Keystone Inn is no more, and few, if any, residents of the area will mourn the passing of what it became over the years, but many still regret the loss…
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