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Florida Farm Bureau has presented Adam and Ashley Cook of Gilchrist County with its 2018 Achievement in Agriculture Award. The award recognizes Young Farmers and Ranchers for their skill at farm production, development of the enterprise and service to Farm Bureau and the local community. Adam and Ashley are fifth generation farmers who both grew up in farming. Their family ... Full Story »

On Friday, October 19, 2018 a Levy County Deputy responded to a home in Fanning Springs when a parent found explicit conversations and images on her 13 year old child’s tablet. The mother told the deputy she took the tablet away from her daughter as a form of discipline and when looking through the tablet found an application downloaded. The ... Full Story »

By Cindy Jo Ayers Gilchrist County is responding in a big way after hurricane Michael came through the panhandle of Florida and Georgia last week. With some 400,000 people without power after the hurricane hit last week, area power companies sent crews of local linemen into the heart of the devastation last week. Duke Energy, Central Florida Electric, Pike and ... Full Story »

The Gilchrist County Commission listened to Joyce Ferrante on Monday September 17th when the Gilchrist resident explained that she has experienced problems involving the truth and honesty relating to her probation and during the time she was in jail in Gilchrist County. She told the Commission that she had been charged for food and laundry and never used either of ... Full Story »

Crew of Hicks Seal Coating and Striping LLC, a local asphalt contractor, is shown resurfacing NE 1st Avenue in Trenton on Monday. The paving project was one block in length and ended at 1st Street. The street and the parking areas next to City Hall were all resurfaced for $16,575. This project was funded out of the City of Trenton’s ... Full Story »

By John Ayers The Trenton City Commission held their first public meeting in September on Monday afternoon as they discussed the proposed tentative budgets for 2018-2019 fiscal year. Commissioner Haley proposed the City of Trenton approve a 2.25 millage rate and adopt a water and sewer rate increase of 5%. Commissioner Rutter gave a motion to adopt Resolution 2018-16 identifying ... Full Story »

Florida FFA announced the inductees for the 2018 Florida FFA Hall of Fame. This year a longtime much admired resident of Gilchrist County, J.M. “Murph” Everett will be inducted to the Florida FFA Hall of Fame. Mr. Everett passed away in January of 2011. The Florida FFA Hall of Fame began in 2007 to pay tribute to those outstanding individuals ... Full Story »

Gilchrist County Emergency Management Director Ralph Smith is requesting that residents of Gilchrist County sign up to the new emergency alert program. Smith said on Thursday, August 23, that he was happy that after only 24 hours of the program starting, over 200 residents had already signed up. Smith said “I don’t mind helping one bit, if they need help ... Full Story »

Gilchrist County will have a new Veterans Service Officer on September 17. Steven Hutson of Trenton will be filling the post which has been held by Jim Mash since February 14, 2007. Mash will be retiring fully on December 31. Hutson is retired Army and he and his wife Ann Marie, have lived in Trenton for about a year and ... Full Story »

The Department of Transportation crew is back in Trenton this week repairing a dip in Main Street. The dip was caused when clay was used to fill over a sewer line after a repair. The material being used to fill the hole is excavatable flowable fill. The job supervisor said that sometime in the future if the City of Trenton ... Full Story »