Confessions of an 8th grade killer Nancy Kennedy Note: This story is adapted from my book, “Move Over, Victoria, I Know the Real Secret.” We’re going through the Ten Commandments at my church and we recently hit No. 6, “Thou shalt not murder.” It reminded me of my first premeditated murder. I was 14. I…
Irma Jean Lett, 89, passed peacefully into her heavenly reward on Saturday, July 26, 2025, at home in Gadsden County, surrounded by her children. A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, August 1, at Bevis Funeral Home, with interment following at Tallahassee Memory Gardens. Family and friends are invited to…
Kristopher Karl Huber passed on July 15, 2025, following a lengthy illness from frontotemporal dementia. He died in Dowling Park, FL at the Good Samaritan Center, he was 66 years old.He was born on November 14, 1958 in Miami, Florida, the second son of Wilmer F. Huber, Jr. and Christa Beierling Huber.Kris is preceded in…
CLAIM OF LIEN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Quincy-Gadsden Airport Authority, whose physical address is 1300 Airport Drive, Quincy, FL 32352, mailing address PO Box 1905, Quincy, FL 32353 files an official CLAIM OF LIEN on the contents of Hangar D-7 at the Quincy Municipal Airport. Hangar D-7 is owned by the Quincy-Gadsden Airport…
Dr. Deborah ThigpenGadsden County News Service Bear Creek Bethel Missionary Baptist Church concluded a powerful three-night revival with a jubilant celebration of its 138th church anniversary on Sunday, July 20. The spiritually enriching services brought together members and guests from across the region to reflect, rejoice, and recommit to the church’s mission of faith and…
Cooking up health: The Mediterranean way Food is a vital part of life, and we generally tend to focus our day on it. What we choose to eat will have an impact on our overall health and well-being. The Mediterranean diet is a way of eating based on the traditional foods and cooking styles of…
Erin HillGadsden County News Service A Southeast Florida sheriff and a state attorney are trying to scuttle a challenge to the constitutionality of a Florida law that bars people from openly carrying guns.St. Lucie County Sheriff Richard Del Toro and 19th Judicial Circuit State Attorney Thomas Bakkedahl on Friday asked a federal judge to side…
Dara KamNews Service of Florida As they continue to fight a legal effort by environmental groups to block an immigrant-detention center in the Everglades, lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration argued Monday that the lawsuit was filed in the wrong federal-court district.Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity are seeking a temporary…
Better choices lead to better days Sheryl Boldt What if our lives played out like a Hollywood movie? Wouldn’t it be comforting to know that no matter what crisis we face, everything will turn out okay, and we will have a happy ending in two hours? But life isn’t fiction. We aren’t guaranteed a happy…
How Lucky Can You Get?Judy Conlin I am blessed beyond measure. It seems that Gad takes pity on us who are sometimes so dumb we don’t know enough sense to get out of our own way. I am one of those older but supposedly wiser individuals. I still have some wits about me, but there…
