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City of Inverness News
Published September 17Spooky Requests Live! at the Valerie Theatre
Step back into the golden age of radio with Request Line Live! - a one-of-a-kind live concert experience where the audience becomes part of the show at the Valerie Theatre.
City of Inverness News
Published September 17Cooter Country Music Festival
Dust off your cowboy boots and grab your hats... the Cooter Country Music Festival is back!
City of Inverness News
Published September 17Movie in the Park: Hocus Pocus
Join us on Friday, October 2nd for a spellbinding Movie in the Park at Liberty Park!
City of Inverness News
Published September 17Cootertober Kickoff Concert - Razor's Edge: AC/DC Tribute
Join us Thursday, October 1 from 7–9 PM on the Downtown Inverness Square for a FREE concert featuring Razor’s Edge – an AC/DC tribute to kickoff the month of Cootertober!
Palatka Daily News
Published September 16Prep football preview: Rams Ready For New Challenge
With a rejuvenated, physical and stingy defense under new defensive coordinator Ed Polly, the Interlachen Junior-Senior High School football team’s defensive unit is highly looking forward to this week’s challenge of facing a run-heavy offense. The Rams (3-1) travel to a rather…
The Citrus Insider
Published September 16How we got North Florida Land Trust
Happy Wednesday... Yesterday I teased that I was going to talk about what took place behind the scenes with the North Florida Land Trust... so here we go. First, I want to preface this by saying that what we got with the North Florida Land Trust green-print is great
City of Inverness News
Published September 15City Opens New U.S. 41 Entrance to Whispering Pines Park
The City of Inverness marked an important milestone for Whispering Pines Park with a grand opening ceremony and ribbon cutting for the park’s new U.S. 41 entrance.
The Citrus Insider
Published September 15Rhetorical questions!
There has been an interesting trend recently... I am starting to get challenged on how I do things around here. It is not unexpected because I am beginning to shake trees that have never been shaken. We all know that there is a "circle of influence" as I
City of Inverness News
Published September 10Cootertober Lamp Post Decorating Contest
The Cootertober Lamp Post Decorating Contest Returns for 2026!
The Citrus Insider
Published September 10Kensington... Oh Kensington...
At the August 25, 2026 BOCC meeting, the board discussed the Kensington access to the new Home Depot in Inverness. To catch you up... back in March of 2025, the BOCC approved a request by Citrus Hills to allow Kensington to be used for an access point for Home Depot.
The Citrus Insider
Published September 08Quasi-Judicial Time
Its a County Commission meeting day. There is not a whole not going on today on the agenda, so it should be a pretty quick meeting. There are two applications the board will consider after 5pm. One is for Citrus Hills to expand the commercial square footage in front of
Alachua Chronicle
Published September 07Man arrested for threatening to stab fast food employee, two days after release from prison for similar incident in Citrus County
Steven Meric Gunkle, 36, was arrested last night after allegedly displaying a large knife during an argument with a fast food employee in a drive-through; he was just released from prison on September 4 after serving a five-year sentence for a similar incident in Citrus County.…