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Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. With the problem of illegal dumping persisting and contributing in large part to the escalating annual costs of garbage disposal, the Jefferson County Solid Waste Department finds…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. School Superintendent Eydie Tricquet and the Jefferson County School Board are seeing possible light at the end of the tunnel, in terms of the district taking back…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Monticello officials last week took the next step in the condemnation process, declaring two derelict structures within the city a public nuisance and setting a deadline for…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. The law enforcement arm of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) last week issued its report on the incident involving the illegal dumping of hundreds of…

Overall crime rate increased in Jefferson County Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. While overall crime decreased across the state during the first six months of 2020, compared with the same period in…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. A picturesque photo of rural Jefferson County adorns the 2021 calendar of a statewide organization. The organization is the Florida Association of Counties (FAC), and the photo…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. With the start of a new year, government bodies are resuming their regular activities, if under the continuing constraints imposed by the coronavirus pandemic. Following are a…

Deidre Myers ECB Publishing, Inc. Deputies from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) and troopers from the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) pursued a vehicle around 3:50 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 4, according…

Ramsey Sullivan ECB Publishing, Inc. The best senior high school football players in north Florida and south Georgia are set to face each other in the annual War of the Border -…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. The Florida Department of Health in Jefferson County (FDOH-Jefferson) now has the Moderna vaccine and has begun vaccinating frontline healthcare workers and individuals ages 65 and older….

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Millions of Americans can expect to receive a $600 stimulus check as early as next week, and some may have already received them, according to Treasury Secretary…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. The Jefferson County Commission has now adopted a resolution expressing opposition to the Suncoast Connector toll road and requesting that the state not build any portion of…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Jefferson County befittingly distributed the last batch of its CARES-Act funding to a group of local businesses and nonprofits/not-for-profits just before the Christmas holidays. The final distribution…

Steve Cordle ECB Publishing, Inc. Just as students get midterm grades to show their progress, Somerset also has to take midterms. However, it is less of a report card than it is…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. The Jefferson County Jail is slated to get a solar array installed atop its roof in the coming weeks, the first project to come to fruition as…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Although the first coronavirus vaccine has been approved and Florida was expected to receive its first batch as early as this past Monday, Jefferson County residents will…

Deidre Myers ECB Publishing, Inc. Shots rang out off of East Clark Avenue at approximately 5:35 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, causing multiple incoming 911 calls. Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO), Monticello Police…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Deputies from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and law enforcement agents from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) were on the hunt last week for the…

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Talk of a new monument on the courthouse circle was back on the Jefferson County Commission’s agenda last week. Unlike the last time that the issue arose,…

Rick Patrick ECB Publishing Inc. On Thursday, Dec. 3, a jury returned a guilty verdict in the trial of Monticello resident, Brad Cameron Whitfield. Whitfield had been charged in connection with a…