What was billed on the agenda only as a mystery “presentation” turned out to be a surprise honor for one of the city’s longest-serving elected officials. At the July 7 meeting of the Starke City Commi…
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Starke city commissioners spent the evening of July 7 discussing a tight fiscal year 2027 budget and voted, later that same night, to hold the city’s property tax rate steady for another year. The ses…
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Bradford County Sheriff Gordon Smith handed over a check for $968,521 at the July 7 county commission meeting, returning unspent funds from his office’s fiscal year 2025 budget on the same morning aud…
Read MoreBradford County’s purchasing rules are moving out of the county code of ordinances and into an internal policy document after a pair of unanimous votes at the July 7 county commission meeting. Commiss…
Read MoreCommissioner Danny Riddick used his comments at the close of the July 7 Bradford County Commission meeting to reflect on the nation’s 250th Independence Day and to voice concerns about the country’s d…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com The Union County School Board moved through a full slate of back-to-school business Monday night, adopting a new enrollment guide for scholarship families, setting…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com A string of vandalism at city parks, a swarm of speeding e-bikes and a 29-year-old playground in need of costly repairs dominated Monday night’s Keystone Heights C…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com Keystone Heights City Council set the ceiling for next year's property tax rate at 3.7902 mills Monday night, while warning residents that a proposed state constit…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com A Waldo man who ran over another man's legs while backing away in a car he'd been hired to repair was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a week in state prison. Jer…
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