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Mark Pettus is Publisher of The Chattahoochee News-Herald & Sneads Sentinel. He can be reached at mark.pettus@prioritynews.net


Group photo at the Florida Main Street conference showing Josh Kever, Roger and Bridgette Rankin, their daughter Lilly, and Melissa Wylie holding an award certificate.
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Quincy Main Street receives three awards at state conference

Erin Hill Quincy Main Street received three awards recognizing historic preservation and community development efforts during the annual Florida Main Street Preservation on Main Street Conference in Cocoa Village. The awards were presented July 23 during the Secretary of State’s Florida Main Street Awards ceremony at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at Kennedy Space Center. Quincy…

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Nurse Judy

The JugglerJudy Conlin I have always been a multitasker, but lately I believe it has outgrown that nomenclature and has transformed into “a juggler.” Let me explain. Since I turned 90, I have had one health issue after another. Doctors, tests and time for each one until it was cleared up. The very next day,…

Promotional image for “Home Country with Slim Randles,” featuring an older man with a white beard, glasses, and cowboy hat smiling beside a country scene with a red truck.
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Home Country

Slim Randles  The moon turned the horses and mules silver with its magic. It gave the packer an unspoken pleasure to look back on a sinuous Sierra snake of eleven animals stretched in a flexible line nearly 150 feet long behind him. And he looked up, straight up on the peaks of Kearsarge where the…

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Today Can Be Different

Is there hope for our divided nation?Sheryl Boldt Immediately following 9/11, I cringed every time I heard a plane fly overhead. Like so many others, I prayed for our nation’s survival. That frightful event’s only bright spot was that it brought our nation together – for a short while. Twenty-five years have passed since that…

Public Notices

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT Gordon Scheffer  vs. Florida State University  Notice is hereby given that the above referenced parties have entered into a settlement of claimant’s tort claim(s) against the insured, for the total amount of $5626.34 to be paid by State of Florida to the claimant. 1t: 9/10 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SECOND…

Public Notices

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT  IN AND FOR GADSDEN COUNTY, FLORIDA  CIVIL DIVISION  CASE NO. 25000054CAA  DIVISION  WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, AS  INDENTURE TRUSTEE WITH RESPECT TO CIM TRUST  2023-R1,       Plaintiff,  vs.  .  UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, BENEFICIARIES,  GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS,  TRUSTEES AND ALL OTHER UNKNOWN PERSONS OR  SPOUSES CLAIMING…

State license plate reader order raises questions for Havana area

Erin HillGadsden County News Service Florida’s order to remove automated license plate readers from state highway rights of way could affect cameras operated throughout Gadsden County, although publicly available mapping does not currently identify a Flock Safety camera within the Town of Havana. The Florida Department of Transportation issued a memorandum Aug. 31 revoking permits…

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NURSE JUDY’S NOOK

LegsJudy Conlin One is born with legs and seldom gives a thought about them. At first, you just kick them in the air. Next, you use them to roll over, eventually to creep on your knees, and finally to pull yourself up on your feet and walk. As you get older, they become very useful….

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