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Debby didn’t dump enough rain to end Florida’s drought
By Front Page Edition on June 30th, 2012 | Last updated: September 20, 2012 at 1:51 pm
By Donna Green-Townsend – WUFT-FM Residents in North Central Florida and the Panhandle are continuing cleanup efforts from all the rain dumped from what was Tropical Storm Debby. Some parts of the state received up between 25 to 30 inchess [...]
Adena protest flotilla planned to bring attention to health of Silver River
By Front Page Edition on June 30th, 2012 | Last updated: September 20, 2012 at 1:52 pm
By Donna Green-Townsend – WUFT-FM While river flooding is causing problems for homeowners and putting a damper on recreational businesses and parks near the Santa Fe, Ichetucknee and Suwannee River areas, there is a river event in Marion County area that is [...]
Bicycling across America to help others with spinal cord injuries
By Front Page Edition on June 28th, 2012 | Last updated: September 27, 2012 at 1:24 pm
By Donna Green-Townsend – WUFT-FM Nearly five years ago Mark Stephan from suffered a horrific spinal cord injury in a bicycle accident in Chicago. Though he was told he would be a quadriplegic and never walk again, the determined athlete went into six [...]
Flood waters cause aggravation to residents along the Santa Fe and Suwannee Rivers
By Front Page Edition on June 27th, 2012 | Last updated: September 27, 2012 at 2:29 pm
By Donna Green-Townsend – WUFT-FM All of the rainfall from what was Tropical Storm Debby is slowly making it way to many of Florida’s creeks and rivers. Several popular North Central Florida waterways are becoming a bit hazardous for public use. [...]
“The Marvelous Wonderettes” opens tonight at the Hippodrome State Theatre
By Front Page Edition on June 1st, 2012 | Last updated: October 12, 2012 at 3:45 pm
By Donna Green-Townsend – WUFT-FM The latest production at the Hippodrome State Theatre, opening tonight will take the audience on a musical trip down memory lane. Florida’s 89.1, WUFT-FM’s Donna Green-Townsend talked with two of [...]
Remembering legendary guitarist Doc Watson
By Front Page Edition on May 30th, 2012 | Last updated: September 27, 2012 at 2:41 pm
By Donna Green-Townsend – WUFT-FM Doc Watson, the grammy award-winning guitarist who has influenced and been revered by virtually every great bluegrass flatpicker in the country has died. The 89-year-old musician, who was blind from age 1, had recently undergone abdominal [...]
Beryl cuts the music a little short at the Florida Folk Festival
By Front Page Edition on May 29th, 2012 | Last updated: September 27, 2012 at 2:41 pm
By Donna Green-Townsend – WUFT-FM This weekend between 10 to 15 thousand people were attending the Florida Folk Festival at the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park in White Springs. As Florida’s 89.1, WUFT-FM’s Donna Green-Townsend reports, White Springs [...]
The state official folk festival celebrates 60 years this weekend
By Front Page Edition on May 25th, 2012 | Last updated: September 27, 2012 at 2:42 pm
By Donna Green-Townsend – WUFT-FM The 60th Annual State Folk Festival got underway today in White Springs just north of Lake City and runs thru Sunday night. Florida’s 89.1, WUFT-FM’s Donna Green-Townsend talked with longtime festival performer Tom Shed about [...]
Beware of “jumping sturgeon” in the Suwannee River this Memorial weekend
By Front Page Edition on May 25th, 2012 | Last updated: September 27, 2012 at 2:43 pm
By Donna Green-Townsend – WUFT-FM Memorial Day weekend is usually one of the busiest times on Florida’s waterways, lakes, rivers and the ocean. According to statistics compiled by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Office of Boating and Waterways, [...]
Florida’s Grant Peeples to entertain at the Shake Rag Art and Culture Center tonight
By Front Page Edition on May 18th, 2012 | Last updated: October 12, 2012 at 1:20 pm
By Donna Green-Townsend – WUFT-FM Singer songwriter Grant Peeples is back in North Central Florida. He’ll be having a CD release party at the Shake Rag Art and Culture Center tonight in Melrose. His latest CD is titled “Prior Convictions.” [...]
