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Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. If a bill introduced recently for the 2024 Florida legislative session is approved, Floridians will soon be able to use lethal force against bears in self-defense. Senate…

Mickey Starling ECB Publishing, Inc. On Monday, Dec. 11, family, friends and fellow veterans paid their last respects to Major John Haynes, who passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 14. Haynes was laid to…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Warren Charles Culp, formerly a finance consultant and finance director in the Jefferson County Clerk of Court Office, entered an open plea before Second Circuit Court Judge…

Laura Young ECB Publishing, Inc. It’s official. Jefferson County K-12 School (JCS) has received a C grade from the Florida Dept. of Education (FDOE) in their 2023 report. After about two decades…

Laura Young ECB Publishing, Inc. Daron Clifford Holmes Jr. of Monticello and Tallahassee, Fla., born Nov. 5, 1991, was sentenced on Nov. 15, 2023, for multiple offenses in five cases that occurred…

Laura Young ECB Publishing, Inc. The Guide to Florida just came out with its Best of Florida winners for 2023 and, while Monticello is a pretty small town, we have some big…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Now that the county has submitted its Evaluation Appraisal Report (EAR) to the state as required, the next step calls for the Jefferson County Planning Commission to…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. County officials’ recent approval of the sale of a surplus building at the industrial park went without a hitch, unlike the contentious debate that ensued when the…

Laura Young ECB Publishing, Inc. Vance Harris Drawdy, who has qualified as a Republican candidate in the 2024 election for Jefferson County Sheriff, was arrested on Wednesday, Nov. 29. He was booked…

Its time again for LETTERS TO SANTA!! Please read the guidelines below and make sure that you get your letters sent so Santa can read them!! Deadline for publication in the newspaper…

Laura Young ECB Publishing, Inc. Most of the Nov. 13 meeting of the Jefferson County School Board was set aside for a presentation from Jackie Pons, principal at Jefferson County K-12 School…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Attorney David Collins, who is representing former Clerk of Court Kirk Reams against charges of grand theft and organized scheme to defraud, is asking the court to…

Laura Young ECB Publishing, Inc. At the annual Reorganizational Meeting on Monday, Nov. 13, the Jefferson County School Board chose its leadership for the 2023-24 fiscal year. The board has a practice…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Nearly three years after county officials first proposed the idea of naming a section of State Road 59 after Major John Leroy Haynes, a military hero who…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Florida’s standard license plate showing two oranges and a white blossom may become a historical curiosity in the not-too-distant future. The News Service of Florida, at least,…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. The alleged noise and stench coming from the Trulieve medical marijuana growing facility in Waukeenah is causing an outcry from some neighboring property owners. On Thursday evening,…

Laura Young ECB Publishing, Inc. On Tuesday, Nov. 28, at 5:25 p.m., the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) responded to a crash at the intersection of U.S. Hwy. 98 and Dice Road in…

Mickey Starling ECB Publishing, Inc. Madison County native and Jefferson County resident Major John Haynes passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 14, at the age of 93. His elite career in the United…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. The large turnout that was expected for the recent site plan review of the new Dollar General Store by the Monticello Local Planning Agency (LPA) failed to…