Gadsden County News

Three Gadsden County residents received small-business awards: Hemant Patel, of the Holiday Inn Express & Suites and Parkway Inn & Suites received the Small Business of the Year Award from Florida A&M's Small Business Development Center in its annual recognition of businesses efforts to improve their community and help people.

Florida State University has teamed up with Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare to develop an automated system that alerts women about appointments and resources.

DeCarlos Duncan has been upgraded to fair condition at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital.

A 14-year-old Valdosta girl was killed when an oak tree fell on the vehicle she was riding in on Thomasville Road at Horseshoe Plantation Road, the Florida Highway Patrol is reporting.

A tree fell through a mobile home pinning a man underneath debris on the 100 block of Cherokee Drive in the Ochlockonee Estates subdivision, said Jim Corder, Gadsden County Sheriff's spokesman.

Despite a slow start to hurricane season, emergency managers in the big bend area are preparing for possible disasters within the next few months.

Each year, local civic organizations recognize outstanding law-enforcement officers for their outstanding work in Gadsden County.

U.S. Marshal Service Press Release: A man wanted in connection with the armed robbery of two elderly females in Thomasville, Georgia has been captured by the US Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force today in Tallahassee, FL.

Franklin County commissioners say they would like to work with officials in Gadsden County on a hurricane shelter.

Months of meetings, conference calls and grant applications are starting to pay off as local governments are starting to see the dollars that translate into local economic stimulus projects.

Local high schools are still licking their wounds from the State of Florida's assigned grades.

School grades released Thursday show Leon County's elementary schools are thriving since all of them, with the exception of Apalachee, made A's or B's. But what concerned district officials was seeing each high school drop at least one letter grade.

T'erica Frost looked forward to doing something new and different Monday morning as she and 13 peers were driven from Quincy to Tallahassee.

Between the late evening hours of Sunday, May 31, and the early morning hours of Monday, June 1, 2009, the southeastern portion of Jackson County experienced several ATV thefts.

Students who just graduated from high school are getting some extra help preparing for college.

A Wakulla corrections officer is now on the other side of the law for soliciting sex in exchange for drugs.

The Gadsden County Sheriff's office is breaking out the K-9's and every other resource to take down criminals with operation D.A.W.G. The D.A.W.G. program will target drug offenders, accidents as a result of speeding, folks with outstanding warrants and gang members.

The small motel is sandwiched between two sandy yellow towers. The two-story salmon structure often is shrouded in the shade cast by its neighbors, the 25-story yellow and teal Wyndham Vacation Resorts to the west and the 23-story Ocean Reef Condominiums to the east.

Eric Williams, the new manager of Gadsden County's Workforce Plus office, is holding his first major event to help people seeking work learn how to use the many resources available.

The Gadsden County Humane Society continues to find interesting ways to fund its projects.