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    In a hurry to get here!

    In a hurry to get here!

    With the labor and delivery of her first two children taking just two and one-half hours and three hours, five minutes respectively, Kirsten Freeman knew that the birth of her…

    Helping…Helping Hands

    Helping…Helping Hands

    Ashley Fournier (center) was named Wells Fargo’s “Volunteer of the Year” for the bank’s Big Bend District. With the honor came a $1,000 grant she could present to a non-profit…

    County commission will begin morning meetings Jan. 16

    On Tuesday, Jan. 16 at 9 a.m the Taylor County Board of County Commissioners will hold its first daytime meeting in years at the Taylor County Administrative Complex (old post…

    Parking lot will cost county $34,350

    The final work on the new Supervisor of Elections building on U.S. 19 — namely paving the facility’s parking lot — will soon be underway in hopes that Supervisor Dana…

    No arrest in stabbing

    A 32-year-old Perry man was stabbed three times during an early-morning altercation Friday that led to him being airlifted to Tallahassee for emergency surgery. Matthew Stanley sustained non-life threatening injuries…

    ‘They told me not to stop for police’

    A 22-year-old Perry woman ended her year by leading police on a high-speed chase through the city, running stop signs and crossing four lanes of traffic at a time in…

    TCSO awaiting report on inmate’s cause of death

    The cause of death remains unknown for an inmate at the Taylor County Jail who fell ill New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, before being transported to the hospital and pronounced…

    Lights… camera… fireworks!

    Lights… camera… fireworks!

    Last summer, a crew of film students from Southeastern University spent several days in Perry interviewing a cross-section of individuals — war veterans and descendants of Taylor County pioneer families…

    County approves spending $123,375 for rest rooms at boat ramp

    Despite several attempts to lower the cost of what was originally described as a $50,000 building, the county commission will instead pay out $123,375 to construct rest room facilities at…

    Larger crowds cited as need to expand courtroom

    County Judge Bill Blue received approval from county commissioners to begin gathering engineering design plans and a cost estimate on his request to expand the second floor courtroom in the…