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Cedar Key’s green movement all started with a citizen on a golf cart, Commissioner Heath Davis said at the Alternative Ways of Managing Solid Waste seminar held in October. “He rode up to me and said, ‘Let’s make this whole island green,’ ”Davis said, who was Mayor at the time. “I told him I’m a fisherman – and then someone thought I could do banking.

A Cedar Key Christmas 2009 Decorations Judging

This is a report from the judges of the decorations for "A Cedar Key Christmas."

While the judges shall remain anonymous, they were honored to be selected.

After nearly two months of budget workshops – some contentious, some congenial – Cedar Key commissioners adopted a tentative millage and $1.4 million budget this week.

With approximately $200,000 cut from last year’s operating budget, commissioners decided they would not need to raise the millage. It will remain the same – 3.1355.

“And that’s no raise in taxes,” said Commissioner Gene Hodges. “That’s exactly what it was last year.”

Around 1 p.m. on Sept. 16, Angelica Doty, 25, of Cedar Key, was driving her 2007 Nissan mini van on Hwy 24 eastbound out of town when she spilled her drink, according to police reports.

Not wanting the mess, Doty reached for the cup, inadvertently pulling the steering wheel with her, police reported. The van ended up in the gulf, 25 feet from the southbound side of the road, about 150 feet from the wooden bridge, and almost completely submerged. “It was an unusually high tide that day,” said Corporal David Perry.