If you're wondering about the hour-or-so long citywide power outage on Tuesday afternoon, July 27, know that it was maintenance work related and it wasn't supposed to happen, according to a Progress Energy (PE) representative. [click for more]

Commissioners didn't get very far into their long-awaited review of the 77-page revised Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan on Thursday evening, July 15, before they had to stop the workshop and go into their regular meeting. [click for more]

Members of various local groups involved in the promotion of the community's artistic, cultural and historical resources came together last week at the invitation of the Jefferson County Tourist Development Council (JCTDC) to explore ways to meld their individual goals and further promote the community. [click for more]

Voters will get an opportunity to decide in November if they want to continue to pay an extra quarter mill in property taxes for another two years to help out the school district. [click for more]

In a bit of housekeeping on Monday night, July 12, the Jefferson County School Board expanded, updated and/or clarified its policies on smoking, class ranking and the selection of valedictorians and salutatorians. [click for more]

Among the slew of new state laws that took effect on July 1 is one with particular application to rural residents, as it relates to the construction, maintenance, installation, repair and abandonment of septic tanks. [click for more]

The Jefferson County School District expects to receive a portion of the $170.2 million that U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced on July 2 that Florida would be receiving to turn around its lowest performing schools through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program. [click for more]

The Monticello City Council is scheduled to hold its first workshop on the budget for the coming fiscal year at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 20, at City Hall. The city's fiscal year starts Oct. 1 and runs through Sept. 30. [click for more]