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Bradford budget tentatively balanced with reserve funding
BY MARK J. CRAWFORD Telegraph Editor STARKE— Bradford County’s finance department has the guidance it needs to present a tentative budget to the commission later this month. Finance Director Dana LaFo…
Read MoreMore money requested for personnel costs, raises
BY MARK J. CRAWFORD Telegraph Editor STARKE— As soon as the presentation on balancing the budget was completed, county commissioners were presented with additional requests to spend. The requests were…
Read MoreStarke set to consider $27 million budget
BY MARK J. CRAWFORD Telegraph Editor STARKE— With little time remaining to consider its budget for Fiscal Year 2022-23 before its hearing on Sept. 6, Starke commissioners say they want to start earlie…
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BMS to resume classes as minor flood warning issued
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.…
Read MoreCharges dropped for cocaine sale
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— The State Attorney’s Office dropped charges of sale of cocaine, possession with intent to sell cocaine and unlawful use of a two-way communications device again…
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Deputy dialed in on stolen property sale
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— Thomas Daniel Clarke, 39, of Lawtey, was sentenced to one year in prison for the March 29 offense of providing false information for pawned items. The state dro…
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Shot by girlfriend, sentenced to probation
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— Jack Edward Brown, 32, was sentenced to five years drug offender probation for the Dec. 5, 2021, offense of felony domestic battery by strangulation. The state…
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Sheriff appears in immigration video
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— Bradford County Sheriff Gordon Smith joined Congresswoman Kat Cammack and Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, in a video about border…
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