Cedar Key News

The Cedar Key green movement continues to build momentum with Faraway Inn becoming the second business to receive the Green Lodging Program designation from the Florida Department of Environment Protection.

The Fourth of July brought all kinds of festivities to our region... But in Cedar Key, the holiday brought a special guest.

The International Herbal Symposium held at Wheaton College validated Nysie Watson's decade long experience as a simpler, or healer, where she garnered two second place prizes, one in the Elixers category and another in Creams and Lotions.

With help from local fishermen, guides and clam farmers, a mass-cooperative effort among local, state and national agencies to more accurately predict storm surge off the coast of Levy County is nearly complete.

The Levy County Tourist Development Tax, paid by guests at hotels, motels, RV parks and other rental places with a six-month limit on occupancy, are dropping and the county Tourism Development Council has been forced to be choosy about where it spends the taxes.

S o much good news, so little time. Let's get right down to the daily dish: Mixing it up with Scott and Erica.

The Florida Department of Education released school grades last week, giving the Levy County School District as a whole a B grade, the same it received last year.

Amidst all of the bad news concerning the Florida state budget during the current recession there is a modicum of good news.

When I saw Newport's The Barking Crab Restaurant won the "Most Spirited" people's choice award and second place for clam chowder in the annual Schweppes Great Chowder Cook-Off earlier this month at the Newport Yachting Center, I thought it would be a recipe we'd like to see, because I couldn't help wondering what a spirited chowder tastes like.

A natural border is formed by the St. Mary's River where it flows between the states of Georgia and Florida.

Luz Kraujalis, known affectionately around Cedar Key as the "Tree Lady" has done it again.

Composting for home gardening is a rapidly growing practice. And well it should be.

Published: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 15, 2009 at 11:32 p.m. Further study of the historic Old Gainesville Depot building, as part of an ongoing rehabilitation effort, has revealed that the former train station dates to 1860 - far older than originally thought - and was the site of a Civil War skirmish.

The Cedar Key Water and Sewer District Board voted unanimously Monday evening to approve a historical joint cooperative project between the City and the Water Board to improve water lines, to be funded by the Community Redevelopment Agency.

Last month more than 100 people brought blankets and lawn chairs to City Park at sunset for the inaugural showing of Movies in the Park.

Published: Friday, June 5, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 7:12 p.m. Yulee Railroad Days rumble into Gainesville and Archer this weekend with events today through Sunday.

Greg Lang has seen Cedar Key at its worst: the miles of pipes running under this little village are not a pretty sight.

"The Florida Life of Thomas Edison" by Michele Wehrwein Albion; University Press of Florida; cloth; 264 pages; $34.95. Thomas Edison.

FCAT results are in and they're a mixed bag, to say the least. Levy County School Board saw a report by Director of Secondary Education Patrick Wnek on the schools' grade-by-grade results in each subject, plus comparisons to state numbers, and a lead-in to the county's Deep FRI training for enhanced reading instruction.

The Levy County Sheriff's Office, Community Relations Division, is offering a no-cost, Teen Driver Improvement Program to all Levy County students who have a current Operators License or Learners Permit or who are about to get their Learners Permit.