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I read an eye-opening book a few years ago called Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations on Race. Though our schools may be largely integrated now, thanks to the hard work and sacrifice of many during the Civil Rights Movement, segregation – in smaller forms – is alive and well.

I like Halloween. Always have. Always will. 

Special to The Beacon

The smallest school in Florida brought home a state championship in FFA forestry on Friday.

The Cedar Key Middle School FFA Chapter won in spectacular fashion. Collectively the team placed first in four of the six categories and placed third in another. Each of the four team members was thewinnner of one of the categories and one team member, Kira Telgen, was named the middle school individual champion.

This is the first state championship for the three year old FFA chapter.

I remember when the Big Dock burned the year 1950.