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Bradford County Telegraph Graduation Edition, May 22, 2025 684s4
Mark J. Crawford
May 21, 2025
Telegraph Grad 5 22 25 Pt1 Telegraph Grad 5 22 25 Pt2
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Lake Region Monitor Graduation Edition, May 22, 2025 5w704o
Mark J. Crawford
May 21, 2025
Monitor Grad 5 22 25 Pt 1 Monitor Grad 5 22 25 Pt 2
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Crosby complaints under investigation 5f6x3a
Mark J. Crawford
May 21, 2025
BY MARK J. CRAWFORD [email protected] Starke Chief istrative Officer Jimmy Crosby remains on paid istrative leave pending an investigation into allegations that he created a “toxic work environment” for employees under his supervision. City Commissioner Bob Milner brought those allegations as well as other complaints about Crosby’s conduct to the...
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25 strong, fair board set to meet next week 206a5g
Mark J. Crawford
May 21, 2025
BY MARK J. CRAWFORD [email protected] Bradford County Commissioners have reconstituted the board of the Bradford Fair Association after settling the association’s debt and acquiring the fairgrounds property. The number for board has ballooned, however, after Sheriff Gordon Smith discovered the association’s charter required a minimum of 20 during...
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Bradford turning Rainbow Center over to ECS 713b2f
Mark J. Crawford
May 20, 2025
BY MARK J. CRAWFORD [email protected] Rainbow Center families are being told the Bradford School District plans to end involvement with the daycare program and turn it over to Episcopal Children’s services. A letter from Superintendent Will Hartley went out to families on Tuesday. School board will consider the recommendation...
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Sports: s29o
Indians lose to Warriors, Hornets in jamboree 36182u
Cliff Smelley
May 22, 2025
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Keystone Heights High School’s football team played Lafayette and West Nassau for two quarters each in a May 20 jamboree in Keystone, losing 14-0 to both. The jamboree, which also included Interlachen, consisted of four matchups in all, with Interlachen playing West Nassau and Interlachen playing...
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KHHS earns 13 first-team All-Clay picks in spring sports 1r5s1g
Cliff Smelley
May 20, 2025
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Keystone Heights High School had student-athletes honored in baseball, softball, tennis and weightlifting with the release of the All-Clay County teams in spring sports. The boys weightlifting team had seven of the 13 first-team honors Keystone earned: Elijah Mize (119-pound class), Colton Hollingsworth (129), Kyle Perkins...
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KHHS’ Wilson to play baseball at Emmanuel 2p4641
Cliff Smelley
May 20, 2025
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] The Keystone Heights High School baseball program lost Andrew Wilson for the 2024 season when he moved to another school, but Wilson returned to KHHS, helped the Indians put together a 19-9 season in that included a district championship and then became just the latest senior...
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Features: 3j3k5o
A look back: Radio has been Kramer’s life 4jd10
Cliff Smelley
May 20, 2025
Editor’s note: The following story was originally published in the Sept. 24, 2015, print issue of the Telegraph-Times-Monitor. BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] If Guglielmo Marconi is often referred to as “The Father of Radio,” does that make Chuck Kramer radio’s son? As a joke, someone once asked Kramer if...
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Kramer to receive inaugural Pillars of Service honor 1f4e29
Cliff Smelley
May 20, 2025
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Chuck Kramer is Bradford County’s first honoree as part of the Santa Fe College Foundation’s newly created Pillars of Service awards program, which will be presented annually to residents of Alachua and Bradford counties in recognition of their impacts on their communities and on the college....
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NFTC welding instructor Geiger ready to retire 5m5eo
Cliff Smelley
May 16, 2025
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Mark Geiger has worked for 23 years at North Florida Technical College, but in a sense, he hasn’t worked a day. That’s how much he has enjoyed teaching the school’s welding program. Except for times when he was sick, Geiger said he never once thought, “Man,...
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Big rigs and big smiles at Touch A Truck event 314p10
Dan Hildebran
May 14, 2025
BY AMBER J. CRAFT Special to the Telegraph The Bradford County Fairgrounds rumbled with excitement on Saturday, May 10, as families gathered for the annual Touch A Truck event, a hands-on experience that offered kids a chance to climb, explore, and even honk the horns of some of the county's...
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BCEF hosts sweet celebration for schools’ best 5t86t
Mark J. Crawford
May 13, 2025
BY MELISSA PYLE Special to the Telegraph The Bradford County Education Foundation hosted its annual awards ceremony and dessert reception on May 7. The event is a time of recognition for all those who were nominated by their schools for the honor of Teacher and School-Related Employee of the Year,...
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Crime: 5uz5z
35 days of freedom – Man jailed 1 month after release, sentenced to 10 more years 376o4z
Dan Hildebran
May 11, 2025
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] A 42-year-old Bradford County man was sentenced to 10 years with the Department of Corrections after pleading to burglarizing a Starke home during a state of emergency, an offense he committed one month after his release from prison. William E. Sanders, III pleaded to unarmed burglary...
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Recent arrests in Bradford, Union and Clay 1q12n
Dan Hildebran
April 23, 2025
The following individuals were arrested recently by local law enforcement officers in Bradford, Union or Clay (Keystone Heights-area) counties. All defendants are considered innocent until convicted in a court or until pleading guilty or no contest. Information in this report is from law enforcement agencies and court documents, which are...
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Obituaries: 42v6h
Obituaries — May 13, 2025 1d2i65
Cliff Smelley
May 13, 2025
Joe Barrow Jr. Joe Barrow Jr., 90, of Keystone Heights died Saturday, April 26, 2025, at Haven Hospice in Palatka. He served in the United States military. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife of 56 years, Oleta (Bacon) Barrow. He is survived...
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Obituaries — May 6, 2025 50523p
Cliff Smelley
May 6, 2025
Gilles Clavet In Loving Memory of Gilles Clavet, Sept. 24, 1941 – April 23, 2025, Gilles Clavet, 83, of Keystone Heights ed away peacefully at his home on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, surrounded by his loving family. He was the devoted husband of Angella (Lagasse) Clavet, with whom he shared...
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Editorial: 4a6f29
DOGE in local government 2y614w
Mark J. Crawford
April 8, 2025
Dear Editor: It recently came to my attention that, beyond the customary retainer Union County pays its attorney, in the last 12 months, the county paid an additional $56,180.25 in professional charges for legal services. The county attorney receives a retainer of $2,910 a month, or $34,920 annually, to attend...
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Thanks for ing food pantry 492a4x
Mark J. Crawford
March 25, 2025
Dear Editor: On behalf of the Board of Directors and many volunteers that operate the Bradford Food Pantry, we want to thank you for your generous in 2024. In 2024, we averaged approximately 100 families receiving food each week, primarily because of the generosity of folks receiving this update....
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