Ten months after Hurricane Hermine made landfall, the city of Cedar Key is still waiting on hundreds of thousands of dollars from FEMA as the 2017 hurricane season begins.
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State officials feel good that a lot of the 2016 losses were insured and the state's backup fund to keep insurance companies afloat is fully restocked now, at 17 billion.
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The St. Augustine neighborhood of Davis Shores earned an unfortunate new nickname in October, according to Linda Brandt, who lives there. It was "Ground Zero."
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In a four-part live series for WUFT's Morning Edition, we visited Cedar Key to hear from those who weathered Hurricane Hermine in 2016. Visit WUFT.org for more.
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Cedar Key residents, officials and business owners are getting ready for the upcoming hurricane season.
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Small police departments like Williston's 12-man team keep the community and police department in sync, but lower pay and lack of promotion makes it hard to recruit.
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About 75 people gathered at Cedar Key for the first annual Workout on the Waterfront, where six teams built boats out of cardboard, plastic and other natural items for the Repurpose-It-Regatta. The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Nature Coast Biological Station held the event.
Read More »Seahorse Key opened to visitors this past weekend before the area is closed off for bird nesting season starting March 1.
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The Beach Front Motel and The Island Room Restaurant are two of the many businesses in Cedar Key that suffered damages from last year's storm. They are recovering but damage from Hurricane Hermine is still evident in the area.
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Updated, March 7, 2017: The Levy County Sheriff’s Office sent out the following update this afternoon, announcing that the remains of the third person on the plane have likely been found: On February 12, 2017 a single engine plane inbound to Cedar Key crashed into the Gulf of Mexico approximately …
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