By Linda Dean Cooper Rod Hastings, former manager of Levy Animal Control submitted his resignation effective, Monday, November 18, at 5:00 PM. Hastings resignation letter is as follows: Board of County Commissioners To Whom It…
Blanton Resignation Rattling County Budget Process
By Terry Witt - Spotlight Senior Reporter One of the earthshaking events in county government that few people know about was the resignation of Jared Blanton, financial director for the Clerk of Court and…
Sheriff Gets More Money to Keep Deputies Onboard
By Terry Witt - Spotlight Senior Reporter Levy County Commissioner John Meeks won support from his fellow commissioners Tuesday to raise the starting pay of sworn deputy sheriffs to $50,000 annually in an effort…
Chairman Apparently Feels Better Lashing Out at Press
By Terry Witt -Spotlight Senior Reporter Levy County Commission Chairman Matt Brooks got testy Tuesday when a reporter asked him during a budget workshop to state the total dollar requests by each department or…
County on Verge of Hiring First Code Enforcement…
By Terry Witt - Spotlight Senior Reporter For as long as anyone can remember, code enforcement cases for Levy County government were handled through county court, but in recent years a backlog has developed…
Can 2022 County Resolution Stop Manure Dumping in…
By Terry Witt - Spotlight Senior Reporter County Coordinator Wilbur Dean said Friday he is confident a resolution adopted by the Levy County Commission in February of 2022 will serve as a moratorium on…
Billionaire Businessman Moving Forward with Manure Composting Facilities;…
By Terry Witt - Spotlight Senior Reporter While Levy County Commissioners wring their hands and pretend to agonize about whether to regulate manure composting facilities, staff members for billionaire businessman Reid Nagle are busy…
County Commission Picking Winners and Losers; Is It…
Commentary by Linda Cooper Long-serving county commissioners John Meeks and Matt Brooks are up for re-election in 2024, and Rock Meeks is up in 2026. If the heated discussions and flaring tempers at the…
What Triggered Resignation of Levy County Planning Commissioner…
By Terry Witt- -Spotlight Senior Reporter A Levy County Planning Commissioner who attracted attention for his role as a high-profile executive in All-In Removal, a company involved in hauling horse manure from equestrian facilities…
