BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com The Lake Butler Rotary Club’s Stars, Stripes and Chrome Car Show featured a judging scheme that highlighted car owners. Rather than relying on random judges, orga…
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Union County High was the talk of Florida high school football in the 1990s, thanks to winning 52 games in a row (a state record at that time) and three straight state championships in Class 3A under…
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The following individuals were recently arrested by local law enforcement officers in Bradford, Union, or Clay (Keystone Heights area) counties. All defendants are considered innocent until convicted…
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Randall Smith, 37, was arrested by Union deputies on July 4 for domestic battery by strangulation, two counts of false imprisonment of an adult and six counts of false imprisonment of a child under 13…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com Union County School Superintendent Mike Ripplinger walked the Union County Historical Society through more than a century and a half of local school history on Ma…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com Worthington Springs sits quietly on the Union-Alachua County line, about 20 miles north of Gainesville on State Road 121, with a population just shy of 400. Visito…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor Union County’s sheriffs have distinguished themselves among Florida’s law enforcement community with two sheriffs serving as president of the Florida Sheriff’s Associat…
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A historic marker on County Road 238 tells the story of Florida’s second oldest settlement, Providence, and reveals that the Union County village was once home to the U.S. Army’s highest-ranking offic…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com Union County and Florida officials, on June 5, 2012, dedicated S.R. 100 within Union County to deputies Hal P. Croft and Ronald Jackson. Both men were killed on Ma…
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