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Today's News

  • Reflections: What's up with the airlines?

    Just this week three airlines filed bankruptcy. The airline industry is failing miserably it seems. They say it is because of competition and fuel prices. I say it's from mismanagement.

    And too, it seems like everyone gets left holding the bag when the airlines bail out - except for the executives. They leave with their pockets full. What does that tell you?

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  • Girls do it again, four-peat at county meet

    With 98 points, Cedar Key girls won the team scoring at Tuesday's running of the Levy County Track Meet, and Shark boys placed second in their competition with 83.5.

    Host Cedar Key head coach Brad Penney proudly informed the crowd in attendance that another school record had been set with Samantha Beckham's 10'0" pole vault success.

    "That's also a tie for state runner-up among 1A schools," he said.

    Boys also had an outstanding outing, narrowly falling behind Williston in team scoring.

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  • Sharks bite back hard vs. Meadowbrook

    With his no-out, RBI walk-off home run, Ryan Alford put the cap on Cedar Key's thrilling 7-6 comeback win against district visitors Meadowbrook. The Sharks had beaten the Mustangs 14-4 in the first week of the season and came out very confident, but a four-inning standoff and opportunistic scoring by Meadowbrook shook their poise.

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  • Trouble in Cedar Key: Fishing with Lloyd

    Some weeks back, not that many, a fleet of boats, all on trailers, came to town for a few days' stay. These boats were impressive, bass boats, inshore-offshore fishing boats, boats with long cranes on them, retractable cranes, others with towers, and a couple of just plain pleasure boats. All were clean and pretty and new, at least in appearance, and all had the word Berkeley in obvious display.

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  • Reflections: Amazing opportunities in General Aviation

    A new movement is happening in General Aviation. The LSA is now out and it is taking off with much enthusiasm.

    "What is an LSA," you might ask?

    Well, it is a light sport aircraft that anyone can fly. It requires no medical certificate like a regular pilot's license. A driver's license is all that is required. Well, yes you still need a pilot's license, but not in the sense of he word.

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  • Abort-Retry-Fail: Great things on the horizon!

    Good day dear readers! Some interesting things have recently been announced by some of the biggest players in the technology world and I will attempt to cover the more important ones today.

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  • Fishing Lines: Have fun, but fish with your conscience

    I am going to go out on a limb here. It is time that we all face the fact that this pond is not so big and it is not an endless resource that will allow us to just take and take. The trout are fully into the spawning mode right now and we as sportsmen need to ask ourselves some hard questions:

    Are these big spawning females more important to us in a freezer or frying pan, or are they more important swimming out there with their sweethearts getting romantic and...well ...you know?

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  • Countdown to the Arts Festival: Skeletons in the open with Susan Livingston, fossil sculptor

    Susan Livingston is taking the bones of the past and making them into art.

    The sculptor from Lutz has a Master of Fine Arts in painting from Florida State University, but put down her paints more than 30 years ago and never looked back.

    She began to produce clay sculptures, starting with some projects that took her back to childhood summers, when a much deeper past intervened.

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  • Track Sharks pick up steam against Chiefland

    Cedar Key girls won at Chiefland in Friday's meet, with an overpowering team score of 140 to 104 for second-place Bell. Key to the win were dominant performances by Sam Beckham and Kacey Miller, including Miller's new school record in the high jump at 5'3 1/2".

    Cedar Key boys fared less well, coming in last among full teams with 68 points; as at the Cedar Key Relays last week, a shortage of team members hobbled their performance. Fortunately, senior Justin Speegle is back and ready to murder his events in next week's county meet.

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  • Shark News

    Mark Your Calendars

    By Claire Brown

    Thursday, March 27: Home baseball game at 4:30 against Meadowbrook.

    Friday, March 28: Take-out chicken dinner, advance sales only

    Monday, March 31: Suwannee Fair Day-No School.

    Tuesday, April 1: SAC Meeting, Early Release; Track meet - Levy County Championship

    Wednesday, April 2: Parent Teacher conferences. Notices of times for parents were sent home last week. This is also an early release day

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