Macclenny News

The Baker County Commission voted 3-2 during a packed meeting to close the Barber Road bridge on the evening of May 21, ending what had become a convenient short cut for many to the Walmart store on SR 228 from busy SR 121.

The Murray Hill neighborhood of Jacksonville is known for many things; the historic Murray Hill Theater, the Edgewood Bakery, Crazy Egg Restaurant, and Moon River Pizza.

The Baker County Commission is poised to vote on closing the substandard bridge that connects the eastern and western portions of Barber Road between SRs 121 and 228 in the south county.

A Lake City man with a criminal record of drug and weapon offenses was sentenced May 1 to 18 months in prison after he entered no contest pleas to carrying a concealed firearm and fleeing police.

MACCLENNY, Fla. -- Alvin Branch fills up his diesel truck at the BP gas station on U.S. 90 in downtown Macclenny regularly.

Three Baker County residents were injured early today when the car they were in struck an embankment wall and they were thrown from the vehicle.

If you put diesel fuel in your vehicle at the BP station on US 90 in Macclenny within the last month or two, you could receive a refund check for being overcharged by 85 cents a gallon.

Former Florida Gator and present day Jacksonville University football coach Kerwin Bell was the guest speaker the evening of April 26 at the Playmaker Awards banquet sponsored by the Baker Family YMCA.

An elderly Live Oak man was seriously injured when his truck veered off Interstate 10 for an unknown reason and overturned in the median the afternoon of April 30.