BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Clay County Commissioners discussed upgrading their code enforcement department, which handles complaints like overgrown vegetation, junk vehicles, trash, and non-permitted structures and signs on property within the county. Commissioner Jim Renninger brought up the topic during a July 11 budget workshop in which he criticized the county’s…

BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— City Manager Lynn Rutkowski said attendance at the city’s Fourth of July Celebration doubled in 2023 over the previous year. The city manager made the announcement during a Monday, July 24 budget workshop. She added that the numbers came from data brokers who are soliciting the city’s…

BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— A 2018 Keystone Heights High School graduate was elected chairman of Florida Young Republicans during the organization’s state convention on June 23 in Sarasota. Brandon Ludwig takes the reigns of the 400-plus-member group, whose ranks include Republicans aged 18 through 40. Ludwig said he wants to improve…

BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS—A member of Santa Fe Audubon told the Keystone Heights Rotary Club about a project Audubon hopes will help researchers restore the populations of a vanishing falcon species. Bill Chitty told the civic group that over the last 40 years, the kestrel populations in North America have decreased…