BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer The North Florida Regional Chamber of Commerce’s annual banquet returned after the pandemic prevented the 2021 event from taking place, and it was with the pandemic in mind that led to the Bradford County Public Library being honored as the Business of the Year. Four awards in all were … Read more
BY TRACY LEE TATE Times Editor Cathryn and Pastor Brian Reagan both have both had interesting and eventful lives both before and after they married. Cathryn was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, growing up in a military family. After high school she worked as a florist and event planner, doing original floral designs. She … Read more
BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Florida’s rural counties may be small, but their voices can make a big noise, especially when they’re combined into one. That’s the idea District 19 Rep. Bobby Payne had in working with others to create Rural Counties Days, an annual event in which rural-county officials gather in the courtyard … Read more
As glamping continues to grow across the United States, one of the biggest opportunities is for agri-tourism, where farmstays allow guests to stay overnight and experience life on a working farm. One of the latest farms to join the flock of U.S. farmstays is the Florida-based Rooterville, a 20-acre farm that cares for hundreds of … Read more
There will be a reunion of Debra Bailey’s former music and chorus students on Saturday, Feb. 12, from 10:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. in the Lake Butler Middle School cafeteria. Bailey would love to see her students from the 1980s and 1990s. Bailey and her husband, … Read more
BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Della Rosenberg left quite a gift for the Woman’s Club of Starke, so the club did something to honor her memory, officially dedicating the Della Rosenberg Memorial Garden on Jan. 12. “This was a long time in the making,” Charnelle Whittemore, club president, said. “We’re very excited to see … Read more
BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Inspired by their brother, who had a congenital heart defect and lived until the age of 18, siblings Brandon and Morgan Boettcher are both enrolled in the practical nursing program at North Florida Technical College, with their eye toward eventually earning degrees and becoming registered nurses. They are driven … Read more
BY LARRY DUPEE Special to the Times LAKE BUTLER — Lake Butler is growing, slowly, but growing. There are still a good number of “old friends” present in the business community, that are now keeping company with some “new kids” that have come into being in the past few years, and all seem to be … Read more
Virginia Crawford Denmark, author of “Who Will You be in the Midst of Your Storm?”, was recently selected as one of three finalists in the annual Southern Christian Writers’ Conference Notable Book Awards. Denmark is a public relations professional with communications and writing degrees from Jacksonville University. She said she was “totally shocked” her … Read more
