Local News

By Carolyn Ten Broeck

With the new school year in session, the Cedar Key Lions Club will be contacting kindergarten and preschools in Levy County offering free early childhood vision screening to identify children up to six years old with undetected vision loss due to Amblyopia factors (Lazy Eye) and refractive errors. 

Robert Reinsberg, a 51-year-old Reddick man who fell unconscious on Thursday, Aug. 8, while on a fishing trip with his 13-year-old son off Seahorse Key has died.

Recent rains are a welcome reprieve for Florida’s sensitive and often over-burdened ecological systems. Lakes, wetlands, rivers and springs — all subject to the effects of development, farming, drought and a changing climate — are, for a time, replenished.

But rain, when it comes in large doses such as the 16.7 inches that fell in Chiefland last month alone, can bring with it unwelcome changes, especially in areas with relatively low groundwater levels.