Today's News

Chickens have been domesticated for thousands of years all over our planet. At one time, just about every farm and many city residences had chickens.

Then starting in the 50's, small towns and cities wanted to have a more progressive image so they banned all livestock and mistakenly lumped chickens in with pigs, cattle, horses and sheep.

By Lou Elliott Jones

The race for Levy County Commission District 1 took a turn recently as a candidate with no party affiliation noticed his candidacy and as a result “closed” the Republican (GOP) primary for that spot.

Under the rules, if candidates for office in a race are all from the same party the party primary race is a “universal primary” open to all voters. But if someone from another party, or someone with no party affiliation enters a race, then only that party's members can vote in the primary.

Water is in constant motion between the earth's surface, atmosphere and the living things that depend on water for their very life. Join Dr. Maria Sgambati, outreach and education coordinator at the University of Florida Seahorse Key Marine Lab, to learn about the water cycle, unique features of water in Florida and the coastline, and some special adaptations species have to live in these contrasting environments. She will be speaking Saturday, April 16 at 10 a.m. at the Cedar Key Public Library on Second Street.

The Old Florida Celebration of the Arts was blessed with pleasant weather and crowds that did not overwhelm the island. And art lovers found plenty to like and buy from the 123 artists displaying their wares.

Cedar Key Police Chief Virgil Sandlin estimated the crowd was between 10,000-12,000 for the two-day event last weekend. “We had a good crowd,” Sandlin said. There was little call for law enforcement to handle anything, he added.