Sanderson News

The official opening of the new Bridge of Lions is less than three months away, and 27 people selected at random will be the first to walk across the bridge.

Resident Mark Lancaster and Commissioner Mike Griffis shake hands. Witnessing a dozen property owners take the podium to protest increased property taxes and its chambers packed with nearly 100 other like-minded residents, the Baker County Commission voted unanimously the evening of September 3 to leave the tax rate unchanged and balance its $33 ...

This year Baker Correctional Institution between Sanderson and Olustee became the second prison in the state participating in a new initiative designed to reduce the state's 32 percent recidivism rate by better preparing inmates to re-enter the community.

A Nashville, Tennessee man died the morning of August 17 when his westbound pickup truck veered into the opposite lanes of Interstate 10 west of Glen St.

Here are highlights from residents in Arlington and surrounding neighborhoods: Three cheers - The Jaguars Foundation Board awarded $712,750 in grants in its first grant cycle of 2009 to 24 local nonprofits serving economically and socially disadvantaged children and families in Northeast Florida.

The Florida Department of Corrections today will designate Baker Correctional Institution in Sanderson as a re-entry facility for male inmates.

"It's like a breath of fresh air, really," he said last week before resuming an afternoon of caring for his manicured lawn in one of the newest neighborhoods in the city.

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"It's like a breath of fresh air, really," he said last week before resuming an afternoon of caring for his manicured lawn in one of the newest neighborhoods in the city.

A combination of ingredients will come together into this evening to trigger showers & thunderstorms, some very heavy.

A man's body has been found in the wreckage of a Baker County plane crash. The body of the white male was found tangled within the sheet metal of the homemade aircraft.

The Florida Highway Patrol and the Baker County Sheriff's Office have located wreckage from a plane that the aviation authorities told them went off radar near Sanderson.

Two teenagers hit by a 92-year-old driver in Baker County are in the hospital in stable condition.

People gathered in Lake Butler to remember a man, and name a road in his honor. CR-231 has been dedicated as "Officer Adam Sanderson Memorial Highway." In front of The Reception and Medical Center the sign was unveiled, followed by a prayer.

Two of four occupants of a car that left CR 125 north of Glen St. Mary the early evening of June 17 died several hours after they were airlifted to Shands Jacksonville.

Two Lowell natives were killed, and a third was seriously injured, along with a 4-year-old boy, in a horrific single-car crash along a country road in northeastern Florida last week.

About four months ago convicted sex offender Allen Bennett was set to be released from prison.

The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a one-vehicle crash in Baker County that killed two people and caused serious injuries to two others, including a 4-year-old. The crash took place about 6 p.m. Wednesday on County Road 125, just northeast of Macclenny.

The Baker County Commission awarded a contract valued at roughly $316,000 to Jacksonville-based APAC June 2 for the asphalt paving of nine road segments spread throughout the county, about 3.8 miles in all.

The charred remains of Erosion Stoppers in Sanderson. Fire officials were unable to identify the cause of a blaze that completely destroyed a commercial building off Reid Stafford Road south of Sanderson the morning of June 8. Fire Chief Richard Dolan said the 3052-square-foot home of Erosion Stoppers Inc.