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Union impact meeting focuses on senior health
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] The October 1 meeting of the Union County Impact Initiative focused on senior health issues with a panel of health providers from Lake Butler Hospital and Lake Butler Family and Pediatric Clinic. Noel Braseth, MD, Holly Garver, APRN-BC, Christy Thomas, RDN, LD/N, and Angelica Kraus, PA. discussed nutrition, diabetes, end-of-life planning … Read more
Lake Butler Hospital highlights cancer survivors and fighters – 4th annual breast cancer awareness luncheon Oct. 16
Lake Butler Hospital invites the community to join its 4th Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Luncheon on Thursday, October 16, 2025, from Noon to 1 PM at 850 E Main St., Lake Butler. The event is free and open to the public. This year’s luncheon features voices of courage and hope, including Jennifer Woodard, MPH, RN, … Read more
Lake Butler’s Fletcher Myers Park rededicated
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] Lake Butler officials, the family of Fletcher Myers, and others gathered to mark the rededication of Fletcher Myers Park on Saturday, September 27. Former Florida Gators Chaplain Patrick Maxwell began the ceremony with an invocation, recalling that Myers, whom he called “Uncle Flash,” took him to Gator games on Saturdays and … Read more
Honoring those who have gone before – Raiford woman finds her calling cleaning the gravestones of veterans and others
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] A Raiford woman who has been tending to her parents’ graves for 29 years, this year discovered that honoring those who have gone before is her calling and has cleaned 238 gravestones, 113 of which have belonged to veterans, since April. Mendy Whitaker said her mother died 29 years ago and … Read more
City breaks ground on new Starke Square stage
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] Officials from Scherer Construction and the City of Starke kicked off the construction of a new stage at Starke Square during a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday, September 4. In comments preceding the shooting of photographs, Scherer Marketing Manager Shelly Vickers introduced Project Manager Adam Steenbeke and Superintendent Kevin Murie, who serves … Read more
Fire assessment letters generate first pushback
Letter incorrectly reported hearing date BY MARK J. CRAWFORD [email protected] Letters mailed to property owners about the upcoming final vote on a countywide fire assessment fee have led to online anger and a petition to reject the fee. County commissioners have grappled with the decision since founding a professional fire department, with most deciding last … Read more
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Updates on shooting at Little Auntie’s Daycare on Starke’s Washington Street
“It looked like a normal pickup.” Video captured shooting at daycare 9:02 p.m. Bradford Sheriff’s Major George L. Konkel, Jr. said that in addition to his detectives interviewing eyewitnesses, he has viewed video of the shooting at Little Auntie’s Daycare, which implicates the woman deputies now have in custody. Konkel said that two parents were … Read more
