Local News

By Zoë Stuber, 12th-grade 

A Cedar Key Welcome Center is back in the works. The Community Redevelopment Board decided Tuesday to reopen the process to convert the empty Creswell House, located next to the Library, into a visitors information hub.  The move came at the request of the newly elected Chamber of Commerce President Tina Ryan and the Board of Directors.  “As you may remember, in years past the Chamber worked hand-in-hand with the City when the City housed us in the old library.

Florida’s Nature Coast Conservancy (FNCC) was founded in Cedar Key  by Captain Rob Crane and the founding board of directors in 1993. It is a non-profit corporation in Florida and an IRS 501c3 designated land trust. As a land trust its business is to own land in trust for preservation, conservation and or public recreation.The FNCC also encourages and assists local governments; as well as other land trusts in the acquisition and preservation of environmentally endangered lands suitable for recreation, preservation or conservation.

The State Fire Marshal’s office is investigating a fire that broke out on Dock Street earlier this month. The Feb. 12 fire was noticed by two Frog’s Landing patrons as they left the restaurant around 11:30 p.m. The women returned to Frog’s to tell staff that they saw flames in the breezeway that runs below the restaurant between Water’s Edge and Niko’s Bait Shop. While one Frog’s Landing employee called 9-1-1, another grabbed a fire extinguisher and rushed to the breezeway.