Grand Ridge News

I had hoped Mika Brzezinski would write this column while I went yonder into the West Florida scrub peddling a new book in such urban populations as Pea Ridge, Mossy Head, Chumuckla, Grand Ridge, Sink Creek, Two Egg, Sopchoppy and a place I call Ring Jaw.

The Jackson County School District has released its proposed administrative staffing plans, which will be presented to the school board on Tuesday, June 16.

I once ruled the Roller Rena. During the '70s - in the 'tween years before I got my driver's license at 16 and sped off in a cloud of dust and hormones - I spent nearly every Friday night at the Roller Rena.

Arnold was one of four schools in Class 4A to receive the Florida High School Athletic Association/Fred E. Rozelle Sportsmanship Award.

A jury in Marianna will have to decide this week if James D. Cook III was an innocent bystander or an active participant in a murder.

MARIANNA POLICE The Marianna Police Department listed the following incidents for May 4, the latest available report: One traffic accident, one suspicious vehicle, four suspicious incidents, one mentally ill person, four disturbances, one larceny, one trespassing complaint, one obscene/threatening phone call report, one illegally parked vehicle, ...

Tensions are still high in Grand Ridge a week after a controversial new charter was voted down by residents.

The 2009 regular middle school track season is now history, and championship season beckons.

Jackson County School District officials have announced how many positions they plan to eliminate through attrition and layoffs for the 2009-2010 school year.

Grand Ridge has voted a new mayor - maybe. Chris Wright was elected mayor with 145 votes Tuesday; incumbent mayor James Barwick received 54 votes.

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A young Jackson County man was killed early Sunday morning in a two-vehicle wreck.

Several residents of Grand Ridge residents and a Marianna resident were arrested Friday as a result of separate investigations by the Jackson County Drug Task Force.

Last Saturday, Blondie's convenience store and eatery reopened after a fire that shut it down for two months.

A former Jackson County Sheriff's deputy nailed an opossum to a post near his estranged wife's house and unknowingly told an informant how he planned to kill the woman and her boyfriend... Conner, an auxiliary ...

A reserve officer with the Jackson County Sheriff's Office has been arrested on charges of attempted murder and aggravated stalking.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Jackson County Sheriff's Office today arrested Gregory Conner, 48, in Marianna, Fla.

A vinyl-sided block house old Old Spanish Trail was gutted by fire late Sunday, according to Sneads Volunteer Fire Chief Buddy Jeter.

A Jackson County Sheriff Deputy went to a residence between Grand Ridge and Sneads this morning to make an arrest on a warrant.

A Grand Ridge man, who was wanted on burglary charges, shot himself to death to avoid being arrested today.