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Ernie Evans and The Florida State Bluegrass Band, and Minnesota’s “premier bluegrass & gospel quintet,” Monroe Crossing, will be performing a benefit concert for Cedar Key Schools at the Cedar Key High School Auditorium on Wednesday, Jan. 22, at 7 p.m. 

Levy County employees will have a little something extra in their paychecks shortly: a 2 percent pay increase that the County Commission approved dating back to Oct. 1, 2013. That is on top of the 3 percent pay increase approved in June.

Bed news for Levy County kids. Students in Columbia and Leon counties may not be going to school tomorrow due to the frigid temperatures, but we are made of tougher stuff in Levy. 

It will be cold in Chiefland Tuesday morning when the temperature is expected to be 24 degrees at 7 a.m. with winds out of the north northwest at 11 mph.  Ditto for Williston and Bronson. Cedar Key will be a bit warmer at that hour with 28 degrees. The high temperature for the day in most of Levy is expected to be in the low 40s. 

The news on employment for Levy County residents during November is good, depending on how you look at the numbers.