BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] A husband and wife who settled in Union County a few years ago made their case to voters at a Saturday, June 6 joint event at the Lake Butler Woman’s Club, with Ca…
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Carolyn Spooner presented this year’s Shirley Ann Brown Livingstone Scholarships to Luke Bacorn, Tamesha Haygood, C.J. Ivey, Agape Murungi and Angela Price. The $1,000 scholarships honor the memory of…
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Recent Union County High School graduate Jeffrey Brugh was voted Florida Dairy Farmers Rural Class Baseball Player of the Year, while the UCHS’ Jiwan James was voted as Rural Class Coach of the Year…
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Florida lawmakers ended a two-day special session Tuesday, advancing a proposed constitutional amendment that could dramatically reduce how much homeowners pay in property taxes if voters approve it t…
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The New River Solid Waste Association board of directors approved a $9.19 million operating budget for fiscal year 2026-2027, accepted the association's fiscal year 2025 financial audit and took steps…
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Sharon Brown Sharon L. Brown, 74, of Hampton passed away Sunday, May 31, 2026, at Haven Hospice in Gainesville. She was born July 24, 1951, in Gainesville. Sharon lived a life filled with dedicatio…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] Union County commissioners agreed Monday to draft a code enforcement ordinance targeting illegal structures and unpermitted dwellings, even as they wrestled with a…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida said Drew Geer, 42, of Lake Butler, Anthony Crosby, 42, of Keystone Heights and Leroy Halbert 53, of…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] The Union County School Board learned last week that state lawmakers have stripped most of the funding the district was counting on to build a new Lake Butler Elem…
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