BY AMBER J. CRAFT Special to the Times With her trademark smile and a heart rooted in faith and education, Meredith Fitzpatrick has been named Lake Butler Middle School’s 2025 Teacher of the Year—an h…
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BY CLIFF SMELLEY cliff@ytfwqrof.elementor.cloud Union County High School’s baseball team came up short of playing for the District 6-Rural championship when it was defeated 4-2 by Branford in the tour…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com The Lake Butler City Commission, acting as its own board of adjustment, approved a special exception that removes one barrier for the construction of a Wawa conve…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com The City of Lake Butler has hired a Gainesville attorney to help it recover nearly $72,000 in costs related to a water main break on Friday, January 17. The misha…
Read MoreBY CLIFF SMELLEY cliff@ytfwqrof.elementor.cloud Second seed Union County held a 2-1 lead after three innings, but fell 4-2 to third seed Branford in the April 15 semifinals of the District 6-Rural tou…
Read MoreThe Sirmones and Sykes family would like to extend our sincere appreciation for your calls, visits, texts, private messages, monetary gifts and your thoughts and prayers during the loss of our family…
Read MoreDaniel Badenhorst Daniel Badenhorst, 60, of Hawthorne died at home on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. Survivors are his wife, Elena (Meyer) Badenhorst; sons, Frans Badenhorst and Gert Badenhorst and their…
Read MoreBY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com A couple who manufacture and rent tiny homes on wheels as short-term rentals in the Providence area came to the April 7 Union County Commission meeting with cooki…
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The following individuals were arrested recently by local law enforcement officers in Bradford, Union or Clay (Keystone Heights-area) counties. All defendants are considered innocent until convicted i…
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