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 In addition to announcing new members to its board, the Cedar Key Chamber of Commerce honored members of the community with its prestigious President’s Awards.

Members of the chamber voted in new leadership last week at the Chamber’s annual meeting. Those members included: Bruce Wilson, president; Peter Stefani, vice president; Jon Manning, secretary/treasurer; George Oakley, director; Ken Bryant, director; Bill Heckler, director; Captain Doug Maple, director; and Andrea Dennison, past president.

When the Cedar Key Water & Sewer District Board started looking for a replacement for their late manager Jack Hotaling they just had to turn their heads to the end of the board table for a replacement.
John McPherson, the board's attorney who usually sits by the end of the board table and has been filling Hotaling's position on an interim basis, told the board earlier this month that he was enjoying the work and he would like to make them an offer to do the manager's job on a one-year contract.

Levy County’s rate of unemployment was 8.8 percent in October, a rate not seen since November 2008 when the area’s unemployment started a steady rise due to the recession.

State Sen. Charlie Dean, center, an alumnus of the College of Central Florida, cuts the ribbon to mark the grand opening and open house on Thursday at the College’s School of Welding at the Levy Campus in Chiefland. Joining Dean are, from left, CF President James Henningsen, Chiefland Chamber of Commerce President Bennitt Patterson, State Rep. Charlie Stone, Dean, CF Trustee Joyce Brancato, CF Levy Campus Provost Marilyn Ladner and CF Trustee Bobby Durrance.