Tag Archives: Union County

In July, the Florida Board of Education mandated five hours of mental health instruction within the school year. The state became the third in the nation to require it.

A group of young people spoke in front of the Alachua County Commission on Tuesday in order to fight in opposition to a proposed phosphate mine in southeastern Union County and in western Bradford County. HPS Enterprises is the company behind the HPS II phosphate mining project. It is made …

Most counties in north central Florida are compliant, including Levy, Gilchrist, Columbia, Union, Bradford and Putnam.

Members of Florida county school boards may soon find themselves faced with a two-term limit as a proposed constitutional amendment makes it’s way through the Florida Constitution Review Commission this week to be voted on for placement on the November ballot.

What school boards are responsible for, how does the school board system work and how much do school board members get paid?

Residents of rural Bradford County recover after Hurricane Irma took their power and flooded some of their homes. Many residents are still without power and do not know when it will come back. Yet, getting outdoors seemed to be the common answer to their problems, as almost a dozen people fished in the flooded Sampson Creek, a father and son duo from Lake Butler put their boat in the elevated waters of the New River and a Sampson City resident drove an all-terrain vehicle through his neighborhood.

Florida schools still use a student's Social Security Number to identify them, despite the risks associated with identity theft.