An Orange Park man sentenced to a year in jail claimed he was the target of a Republican plot to take his life and criticized Sheriff Brad Whitehead for not calling the FBI to report local corruption.…
Read MoreA 39-year-old Lake Butler man was sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading to sharing his ex-girlfriend’s private photos on social media and threatening to print the images and “place them all over…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN General manager LAKE BUTLER—After serving two years in prison, a man on five years’ probation was sentenced to an additional 10 years behind bars after a judge found him guilty of vio…
Read MoreThe girlfriend of a Union Correctional Work Camp inmate was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence and three years’ probation, while her boyfriend earned an additional four years in state custody…
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Bank holding company DLP Bancshares announced that its commercial bank based in Starke: Community State Bank, will be renamed DLP Bank on November 13. In a news release, the company said the bank has…
Read MoreLoyal Aldridge Jr. Rev. Loyal E. Aldridge Jr., 70, born on April 26, 1953, in Starke, passed on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. He attended the local schools of Bradford County. He was a member of New Hope Mi…
Read MoreBY TRACY LEE TATE Special to the Times The Union County School District, more specifically the School Board and Superintendent Mike Ripplinger, have been hard at work for more than a year, making th…
Read MoreBY TRACY LEE TATE Special to the Times LAKE BUTLER—The year’s annual Veterans Day observance will be held on Nov. 10 in the auditorium at Union County High School at 9 a.m. The event is open to the…
Read MoreBY TRACY LEE TATE Special to the Times LAKE BUTLER— The City of Lake Butler held a special meeting Wed. Nov. 1 to interview its top three picks of the applicants for the position of city…
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