BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Clay Electric Cooperative said rising natural gas prices are forcing it to increase the power cost portion of the charges it bills members. The co-op said in its September Power Line bill insert that members using 1,000 KwH will see a $5 per month increase on their bills. … Read more
Two Clay County School District employees told the school board that newly approved labor agreements unfairly penalize veteran employees. The workers said the new contracts, one for teachers and a second for support personnel, compensate new employees at the same rate as veteran workers. Joel Miller said that when he started as a teacher at … Read more
During the Sept. 1 Clay County School board meeting, the district recognized the certification of Keystone Heights High School’s two-year-old community partnership school. The partnership is between the school district, the Children’s Home Society, Santa Fe College and Aza Health Care. It provides students and their families with health, social and other services. Principal Laurie … Read more
A Union County jury convicted a Newberry High School football coach of three misdemeanors after a day-long trial in Lake Butler Wednesday, Sept. 7. Geronnie Rollins was charged with trespassing, resisting an officer without violence, and interfering with a school function for his conduct during an Oct. 29, 2021, high school football game at Union … Read more
A preliminary investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board said a rotor came off a gyrocopter prior to the aircraft’s July 30 crash into a goat field near Melrose. Both the flight instructor on board and the pilot under instruction were killed in the crash. “Examination of the gyroplane revealed that the majority of the … Read more
BY MARK J. CRAWFORD Telegraph Editor Suwannee River Water Management District is predicting minor flooding on the Santa Fe River by this weekend, with one of the areas to be near Worthington Springs. “This means there is a chance of minor flooding on property near the Santa Fe River,” the district stated. Additional areas along … Read more
BY MARK J. CRAWFORD Telegraph Editor Incumbents won the night in Bradford’s county commission races, but not so in the District 5 race for school board. Voters gave Kenny Thompson and Danny Riddick an additional term on the county commission, with Thompson receiving nearly 58% of the votes cast and Riddick receiving almost 41%. Riddick’s … Read more
BY MARK J. CRAWFORD Telegraph Editor Velesa Thomas, a paraprofessional at Southside Elementary School, is breathing with even more gratitude these days. Thomas was saved from choking thanks to the intervention of fellow paraprofessional Neisha Taylor and Ben Carter, chief of Bradford County Fire Rescue. Thomas related the experience in a letter to Principal … Read more
The Florida Department of Health in Bradford County has issued a Health Alert for the presence of harmful blue-green algal toxins in the Sampson River (off Sampson Lake). This is in response to a water sample taken on August 15, 2022. The public should exercise caution in and around the Sampson River area. Residents and … Read more
BY MARK J. CRAWFORD Telegraph Editor STARKE— As Starke commissioners prepared to approve a resolution on ethics and civility, Mayor Janice Mortimer asked Commissioner Danny Nugent to control himself going forward and better understand his role as a city commissioner. Last year, Starke employees and contract workers complained that Nugent had interfered with their work, … Read more
