Cedar Key News

Three attorneys are plenty to handle the county's routine legal business, Citrus commissioners decided Tuesday.

I like Halloween. Always have. Always will. I like the childhood rituals. Carving pumpkins, hot apple cider spiced with cinnamon and cloves, homemade caramel apples, chili and trick or treating.

"We've got a grease problem again," said Jack Hotaling, Cedar Key Water and Sewer District Manager.

Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:24 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:24 a.m. A Cedar Key man who worked at a Marion County horse farm was arrested Thursday morning in connection with the slaying of the woman he is said to have married two weeks ago and the kidnapping of another man.

Could see a stray shower early morning, otherwise partly sunny and breezy with a 20% chance of isolated showers throughout the day.

Apalachicola's centenarian and family patriarch Captain Spero Buzier, the oldest living commercial fisherman in Franklin County, passed away peacefully at his daughter's home at 17 25th Avenue, in Apalachicola on Wednesday, Oct.

Airheads from all over the state converged on a 45-acre farm located between Cedar Key and Chiefland last weekend for the Second Annual Suwannee River Tech Day and Camp.

Technicians completed the two and half week installation of a permanent weather station on the Big Dock tower this week, making Cedar Key the first station in Florida capable of enduring hurricanes up to category 4. "Everybody's been wondering what that mushroom's been about," said NOAA contractor Lee Chapin.

Florida fishermen say a proposed federal regulations could leave the Florida oyster industry.

Throngs of visitors will soon get their fill of Cedar Key oysters, steamed crawfish, smoked mullet and other ocean favorites at the 2009 Ruskin Seafood Festival.

Published: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 12:07 a.m. Two recently licensed pilots walked away without injury from a crash while landing in Cedar Key on Saturday.

The developer of Cedar Key Yacht Club Marina, a $14.5 million, 100 boat slip project near City Park and Cedar Cove at the end of 2nd Street, has received a partial summary judgment against Jerome D. Mitchell, who absconded with $1,445,000. Early this year, Innovated Capital Club at Cedar Key, LLC, began asking escrow agent Jerome D. Mitchell to ...

I Jimmy Bishop was a part of Cedar Key History in the making. I remember when people entering into Cedar Key, the first thing they would see were docks with gill nets pulled onto the dock's railing, the nets waving in the breeze.

A twin engine plane carrying two people crash landed at the Cedar Key Airport Saturday afternoon.

After 34 years of dedication, Cedar Key Postmaster Annette Kordgien retired from the United States Postal Service Oct.

School Board of Levy County Superintendent Bob Hastings said on Tuesday that the school district's full-time enrollment decreased from last year by an estimated 96 students, raising concerns about a major source of revenue for the district.

A flag that's flown in front of one North Central Florida post office everyday for years is no longer flying.

Published: Friday, October 16, 2009 at 10:48 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 16, 2009 at 10:48 a.m. The historic Seahorse Key Lighthouse will be open to the public Saturday and Sunday, one of only two times a year set aside for public tours of the 1854 structure.

The 40th annual Cedar Key seafood festival took place over the weekend. Hundreds turned out to get food from dozens of vendors that cooked fresh clams, shrimp, oysters, and crabs.

I read an eye-opening book a few years ago called Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations on Race.