News:
United for a Cure 5K incorporates, addresses local needs
Dan Hildebran
September 28, 2023
BY TRACY LEE TATE Special to the Monitor LAKE BUTLER—It’s time for residents to come out and walk or run to help find a cure for cancer – the second annual United for a Cure 5K is scheduled for 9 a.m. Sept. 30, 2023, at Lake Butler Hospital. This year,...
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Bradford prosecutor appointed Levy County judge
Dan Hildebran
September 28, 2023
Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed the State Attorney’s division chief in Bradford County as the Levy County judge. Luis Bustamante has been the division chief in Starke since 2015. His previous positions include jobs with the State Attorney’s Office in Daytona Beach and the Statewide Prosecutor’s Office based in Tallahassee....
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Telegraph-Times-Monitor for Sept. 28, 2023
Mark J. Crawford
September 27, 2023
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Dumping decals will be required at collection sites
Mark J. Crawford
September 26, 2023
BY MARK J. CRAWFORD Telegraph Editor STARKE — Window decals will once again be used at Bradford County’s solid waste collection sites to verify residency. County commissioners approved the plan Sept. 21. County Manager Scott Kornegay said when the solid waste special assessment was recently increased, commissioners received complaints about...
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Double duty for Lake Butler commissioners
Dan Hildebran
September 26, 2023
BY TRACY LEE TATE Special to the Times LAKE BUTLER—The Lake Butler City Commission did double duty last week with two meetings on their to-do list. First, they held their regular meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 19. Then, on Thursday, Sept. 21, the final budget public hearing was held. Middle schoolers...
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Checkers drive-in demolished
Mark J. Crawford
September 26, 2023
Workers began tearing down the former Checkers Drive-in at the corner of U.S. 301 and Lafayette Street in Starke. D & R Restaurants Inc. acquired the parcel in 1994 and constructed the 1,084-square-foot drive-through that same year. In August of 2012 D&R sold the building on less than an acre...
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Sports:
Griffin places 8th, KHHS boys are 5th at Run Matanzas meet
Cliff Smelley
October 2, 2023
BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Keystone Heights High School placed fifth out of 19 boys teams, led by Tyler Griffin’s eighth-place finish at the Sept. 30 Run Matanzas Invitational in Palm Coast. Griffin had a time of 18:24 for the Indians, who placed behind New Smyrna Beach, DeLand, Oakleaf...
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Crim reaches 1K digs, UCHS volleyball team sweeps Bell to end 3-match losing streak
Cliff Smelley
October 2, 2023
BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Union County High School senior volleyball player Jurney Crim surpassed 1,000 career digs and got the chance to celebrate the accomplishment during a home match on Sept. 26. “In reaching varsity my freshman year, that was kind of my whole goal — getting to...
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Tornadoes roll to 48-6 homecoming win over Indians
Cliff Smelley
October 2, 2023
BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Homecoming proved to be special for senior running back Willie Pollard, who scored four touchdowns as the Bradford High School football team defeated Keystone Heights 48-6 on Sept. 29 in the first District 6-2S game for both teams. “My last (homecoming game),” Pollard said....
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Features:
Starke native Kruzan follows love of math into data science
Cliff Smelley
September 25, 2023
BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Katie Kruzan’s love of math put her onto a career path she never would’ve envisioned as a student at Hope Christian Academy and has ultimately led to her having her own data-science consulting business. Kruzan, Hope Christian’s 2013-14 valedictorian, lives in Chicago, helping small...
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Durrance, Rhoden earn ‘outstanding’ honors at BC 4-H banquet
Cliff Smelley
September 12, 2023
BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Shayna Durrance and Saylor Rhoden received Outstanding Bradford County 4-H Members of the Year awards at the organization’s annual banquet, which was held Sept. 7 at the Gov. Charley E. Johns Conference Center in Starke. Durrance, a senior member, is active in the Green...
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Aerobatics competition returning to airport
Dan Hildebran
September 12, 2023
KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— The Snowbird Aerobatics competition will return to the Keystone Heights Airport in March 2024. Last year’s event, produced by the Ocala chapter of the International Aerobatics Club, attracted 25 competitors, two in the unlimited division, which is the most difficult. Chapter President Hector Ramirez said there are only...
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Crime:
Plastic gun at Lawtey Elementary raises alarms
Dan Hildebran
September 29, 2023
The Bradford County Sheriff’s Office said an apparent gun sighting at Lawtey Elementary School disrupted a class and resulted in a student being referred for a misdemeanor charge. In a social media post, the office said that on Tuesday, Sept. 27, a student reported to a staff member that another...
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Surveillance cameras catch Hampton burglars
Dan Hildebran
September 29, 2023
Two Hampton women were both sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison after admitting to breaking into a vacant residence. Nicole Lynn Baker, 43, and Priscilla Lynn Curtis, 32, pleaded to unarmed burglary of an unoccupied structure. According to an arrest report, the owner of a vacant Hampton-area home installed surveillance...
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Obituaries:
Obituaries — Sept. 26, 2023
Cliff Smelley
September 26, 2023
Roger Bennett Roger Dale Bennett, 64, of Starke stepped over to the other side to his heavenly home on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023, at St. Vincent’s Hospital with his family by his side. He was born Dec. 9, 1958 to the late Glen Gary and Ferrell Jean Bennett and was...
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Obituaries — Sept. 19, 2023
Cliff Smelley
September 19, 2023
Nancy Coffey Mrs. Nancy York Coffey, 74, of Keystone Heights passed away Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023, in Gainesville. She was born Oct. 3, 1948, in Hicksville, New York to the late William and Leona (Shore) York. She was employed with Putnam and Clay County school board as an elementary and...
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Editorial:
Water: The Ultimate Liquid Asset
Mark J. Crawford
July 19, 2023
Dear Editor: The first requirement for a perfect day at the beach is not sand — it’s water! Preferably healthy, clean water. Emerald-green sapphire-blue water, not blue green algae. Water with ordinary tides, not noxious red tide. Unfortunately, Florida ranks number one in America for most acreage of lakes...
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A new mining controversy?
Mark J. Crawford
July 5, 2023
Dear Editor: I would like to respond to part of the article in last week’s Telegraph covering the regulation of mining in our county. I called out the commissioners for agreeing so easily to a workshop on a proposed new Land Development Regulation (LDR), a workshop requested by one lawyer...
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