Chiefland News

The Christmas season is upon us. The Christmas lights are up in Chiefland. A radio station is playing Christmas music.

Dixie County Humane Society is participating in the national "Foster A Lonely Pet For the Holidays" pet fostering program starting today and having a foster/adoption event on Sunday, Dec.

It's not hard to gaze upon the night sky and be overcome with awe and wonder. It's the great unknown.

The Federal Trade Commission has asked a federal court to find Blue Hippo in contempt of a 2008 court order that required it to end abusive consumer practices.

Published: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 6:40 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 6:40 p.m. The Tri-County Toys for Tots has its fifth annual motorcycle ride on Saturday for Levy, Gilchrist and Dixie counties.

Suwannee Valley residents are packing shoe box gifts for children in more than 100 countries suffering from natural disaster, war, terrorism, disease, famine and poverty for Operation Christmas Child, the world's largest Christmas project.

Once again the community of Chiefland has stepped up to provide a service for our children.

Ninety-year-old Olga, a long-term resident at Tri-County Nursing Home, in Trenton, looked a little confused when a small group of people entered her room asking questions about expecting visitors Thursday.

Published: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 10:52 p.m. An Archer pastor was slapped with a $100,000 judgment related to complaints of defrauding church members who loaned him money to build houses.

O.C. Graham was once like the rest of us. He liked to party, said Aljoseph Carnegie, president of the Tri-County Branch of the NAACP at its 19th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet at Tommy Usher Community Center in Chiefland on Oct.

The Levy County Commission is on its way to accepting the gift of a 6-foot-by 5-foot-by-3-foot black granite monument detailing the Ten Commandments and what could be an 11th one: "Love God and Keep His Commandments." An application by the Tri County Pregnancy Center of Williston was presented by County Coordinator Fred Moody after being brought to ...

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.

The city has managed to balance its 2008-09 fiscal-year budget after adopting an amendment that showed increases and re-allocations in several funds.

Buy your pumpkin at First UMC Chiefland The First United Methodist Church of Chiefland is selling pumpkins and gourds of all sizes, shapes and colors.

Six months of planning and drug buys went up like a puff of smoke on Friday when more than 40 officers from seven state and federal agencies raided three homes in Chiefland.

Some time ago while mowing a vacant lot on the south east side of Chiefland I observed a brown medium sized dog chained up under some trees next door.

Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 8:19 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 8:19 a.m. The ties between a now-deceased Dixie County man and the 38-year-old unsolved murder of a New Hampshire teenager will be examined Friday night during a nationally televised news program.

Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 7:03 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 7:03 p.m. A Williston man serving a state prison sentence for a Marion County conviction, who was scheduled to be released in March, will likely remain behind bars for several additional months.

Published: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 3:57 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 3:57 p.m. An unusual form of Halloween trick-or-treating played out more than a week early in the Chiefland area.

Dr. Rayanne Giddis, director of Central Florida Community College's Levy Center since 1998, is leaving to take a higher position within the college in Ocala.