Local News in Union County
Community news from our local sources
Union County 25 storieswidest scope for this area
Bradford County Telegraph
Published September 22BHS, KHHS, UCHS golf roundup
Bradford High School’s Steven Carter finished as medalist as the Tornadoes defeated Union County in a Sept. 17 boys golf match at the Starke Golf and Country Club. The Tornadoes had a team score of 167, which put them 17 strokes ahead of the Tigers. Carter made par on seven…
Bradford County Telegraph
Published September 22Tigers lose 48-21 to Lake Weir despite early success
BY LISA HOLTZENDORF Special to the Telegraph-Times-Monitor Union County High School’s football team gave undefeated Lake Weir all it could handle early, taking a lead twice before the Hurricanes pulled away, defeating the Tigers 48-21 on Sept. 18 in Lake Butler. It was an…
Bradford County Telegraph
Published September 21UCHS JV volleyball keeps rolling with win over BHS
Union County High School’s junior varsity volleyball team improved to 11-3 with a 2-0 (25-10, 25- 21) win over host Bradford on Sept. 17. The second set was a closer affair. Bradford got a service ace each from Callay Carter and Shelby Williams, but the Tigers forced side-out…
Bradford County Telegraph
Published September 21Tornadoes top Tigers in varsity volleyball thriller
Tatum Burkhalter put an emphatic exclamation point on the Bradford High School volleyball team’s Sept. 17 home match against Union County with a kill that set off a wild celebration as the Tornadoes defeated the Tigers 3-2 (25-18, 25-16, 23- 25, 24-26, 17-15). Bradford had…
Union County Times
Published September 15Tomlinson takes 2nd in UCHS boys golf loss to Madison
Union County High School came up short in a Sept. 10 boys golf match against Madison County at The Country Club at Lake City, but the Tigers’ Ayden Tomlinson finished as the individual runner-up. The Tigers had a team score of 204, which left them trailing the Cowboys by seven…
Union County Times
Published September 15New River board advances Gainesville waste deal, expands search for regional customers
The New River Solid Waste Association board voted Sept. 10 to move forward on a disposal agreement with the city of Gainesville and authorized its executive director to pursue similar deals with other municipalities, as the authority looks to bring in additional revenue for the…
Bradford County Telegraph
Published September 15Tigers drop 2nd in a row, lose 33-0 to Ft. White
BY LISA HOLTZENDORF Special to the Telegraph-Times-Monitor A hot Fort White team defeated a depleted Union County High School football team 33-0 on Sept. 11 in Lake Butler. Fort White (3-0) entered the game off wins by scores of 28-13 over Eastside and 61-19 over Chiefland, while…
Bradford County Telegraph
Published September 15Lewis recognized during UCHS Armed Forces Night
BY LISA HOLTZENDORF Special to the Telegraph-Times-Monitor Paul Lewis was honored by the Union County Quarterback Club prior to the kickoff of the Sept. 11 Union County High School football game versus Fort White as part of Armed Forces Night. Lewis, the founder of Lake Butler’s…
Union County Times
Published September 14Water districts hold drought orders as August rain falls short of recovery
Bradford has lowest 12-month rainfall in St. Johns district; New River and upper Santa Fe flowing again BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com August rain helped, but not enough. Staff at both water management districts that serve Bradford, Union and Clay counties told their…
Union County Times
Published September 11Union County scraps 2% raises, freezes spending as reserves shrink
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com Union County commissioners voted on Thursday, Sept. 10 to eliminate a planned 2% cost-of-living raise for county employees and to freeze unnecessary spending for the rest of the fiscal year, then acknowledged the moves did little to close a…
Union County Times
Published September 11Rawson: ‘State rep. is not Santa Claus’
House District 10 Republican nominee says he’ll guard his independence from House leaders instead of measuring success by the dollars he brings home Marshall Rawson thinks the job he is seeking has been misunderstood. For years, he said, a North Florida state representative has…
Palatka Daily News
Published September 11Column: There is a reason why it is called a ‘press box’
The more I think about a road trip to cover a high school football game now, the more the skin crawls off my body. Two weeks ago, I had to make the trek to Union County High School for Palatka’s first-ever meeting with the host Tigers at Pritchett Stadium. I had been there only a…