Cedar Key News

The Levy County Commission is looking for information on water - how much there is, how it is being used, where it is going and whether to join or form a water authority.

This year marks the 28th anniversary of the Inglis-Yankeetown Seafood festival hosted by the Lions club.

An announcement was made yesterday by H.D. Yerxa that oil drilling operations on the Nevers-Yerxa property, Sunset Point, had been discontinued for the present.

Experts gathered at a forum hosted by state Representative Debbie Boyd Monday night in Branford to express concern over North Florida's dwindling water supply.

Citrus County officials are trying to figure out why the state suddenly dropped its alcohol license complaint against the Cedar Key Fish and Crab, home of the controversial Freezer bar.

In October, Felicia Ann "Red" Fine, 22, and Charles Edwin Duke, 23, picked up a marriage license.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a ban on the sale of raw oysters during the warm months of the year, unless they are treated with radiation.

Published: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 11:48 p.m. The Cedar Key man accused of shooting his wife of two weeks and kidnapping a friend might have been motivated by the couple's financial problems.

Three attorneys are plenty to handle the county's routine legal business, Citrus commissioners decided Tuesday.

I like Halloween. Always have. Always will. I like the childhood rituals. Carving pumpkins, hot apple cider spiced with cinnamon and cloves, homemade caramel apples, chili and trick or treating.

"We've got a grease problem again," said Jack Hotaling, Cedar Key Water and Sewer District Manager.

Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:24 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:24 a.m. A Cedar Key man who worked at a Marion County horse farm was arrested Thursday morning in connection with the slaying of the woman he is said to have married two weeks ago and the kidnapping of another man.

Could see a stray shower early morning, otherwise partly sunny and breezy with a 20% chance of isolated showers throughout the day.

Apalachicola's centenarian and family patriarch Captain Spero Buzier, the oldest living commercial fisherman in Franklin County, passed away peacefully at his daughter's home at 17 25th Avenue, in Apalachicola on Wednesday, Oct.

Airheads from all over the state converged on a 45-acre farm located between Cedar Key and Chiefland last weekend for the Second Annual Suwannee River Tech Day and Camp.

Technicians completed the two and half week installation of a permanent weather station on the Big Dock tower this week, making Cedar Key the first station in Florida capable of enduring hurricanes up to category 4. "Everybody's been wondering what that mushroom's been about," said NOAA contractor Lee Chapin.

Florida fishermen say a proposed federal regulations could leave the Florida oyster industry.

Throngs of visitors will soon get their fill of Cedar Key oysters, steamed crawfish, smoked mullet and other ocean favorites at the 2009 Ruskin Seafood Festival.

Published: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 12:07 a.m. Two recently licensed pilots walked away without injury from a crash while landing in Cedar Key on Saturday.

The developer of Cedar Key Yacht Club Marina, a $14.5 million, 100 boat slip project near City Park and Cedar Cove at the end of 2nd Street, has received a partial summary judgment against Jerome D. Mitchell, who absconded with $1,445,000. Early this year, Innovated Capital Club at Cedar Key, LLC, began asking escrow agent Jerome D. Mitchell to ...