Local News

 By Jerry Lawrence

The CK Aquaculture Association, the Oyster Association and CK School are holding a benefit for the Berger Family, who lost everything in a recent home fire, on Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the City Park. There will be entertainment, raffles, steamed clams, fried oysters, deserts and drinks
Fred and Tina Berger and their three boys are active in the community and youth athletics. Tina Berger is best known for her photographs of children participating in youth sports in Cedar Key and Chefland and her work has graced the pages of the Cedar Key Beacon and Chiefland Citizen.

The Levy County Health Department and Alachua County Health Department have issued a rabies alert for the Forest Park and University Oaks area which is located in Levy County and near the Alachua County border in Archer.

This is in response to a domestic dog that tested positive for rabies on Feb. 23.

The Levy County recycling program is still on hiatus awaiting a decision on when it can get women prison inmates to sort the material collected.
The county suspended the program and picked up the recycling trailers from around the county three weeks ago after the state Department of Corrections decided to shut down the Levy Forestry Work Camp which provided inmates for the sorting  program at the landfill.