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  • Learning Curve Tutoring Center opens in Crawfordville

    Special to The News

    The Learning Curve Tutoring Center opened recently in Crawfordville, in The Wakulla News building at 3119-B Crawfordville Hwy.

    The Learning Curve will cater to students from kindergarten through college. It is Wakulla County’s first full-service tutoring center. Students and parents will no longer have to drive 30 miles, spend three hours in travel and tutor time as well as exorbitant prices for supplemental education.

    The center offers everything from one-on-one instruction to small group and ACT/SAT Prep Courses.

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  • Spotlight on Business: Crawfordville Auto & Tire and A-1 Insurance of Wakulla

    Business:  Crawfordville Auto & Tire   Owner:  Dan and Terri Hinchee

    Tell us about your business: At Crawfordville Auto & Tire (formally Bob’s Automotive) we are equipped to repair almost every make and model car or truck, whether foreign or domestic. Crawfordville Auto & Tire has the distinct honor of being the only AAA approved auto repair center and we offer AAA towing in Wakulla County.

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  • St. Joe sues Halliburton over oil spill

    By MICHAEL PELTIER

    THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

    TALLAHASSEE – Saying its stock has dropped 40 percent because of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Panhandle developer St. Joe Co. filed suit last week against Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. for its role in what is now considered the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.

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  • Town Plan workshop held to hear from business community

    The first in a series of three Crawfordville Town Plan workshops was held Tuesday, July 27. The purpose of the first workshop was to get input from Crawfordville-area businesses, property owners, and residents concerning a future vision for development patterns, roads and facilities for a future Crawfordville town.

    Kimley-Horne & Associates facilitated the workshop with Jon Sewell, Artie White, and Erin Emmons breaking the participants into three groups for a more detailed discussion of the issues.

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  • Briefcase 08.05

    The Sopchoppy City Council recently selected Colleen Skipper to serve as mayor.

    The small North Florida municipality operates under a weak mayor form of government and the council annually elects one of its members to serve as mayor.

    Skipper was first elected to the council in 2001 and has served as Vice-Mayor since 2004.

    With this appointment, history was made with Skipper becoming not only the first woman to serve as mayor but also as the first black mayor of this municipality.

    Councilman Richard Harden was selected to serve as Vice-Mayor.

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  • Jobless rate up sightly in Wakulla

    Wakulla County’s unemployment rate was up slightly in June to 8.2 percent, according to the state Agency for Workforce Innovation figures released on Friday, July 16.

    The jobless rate was reported as 8.0 percent in May and was 8.5 percent in April.

    Despite the increase, Wakulla has the sixth lowest unemployment rate of the 67 counties in the state, according to AWI.

    Neighboring Franklin County was just under Wakulla’s rate with a reported unemployment of 8.0 percent. Leon County reported the same 8.2 percent as Wakulla.

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  • Workshop set on Crawfordville Town Plan

    Special to The News

    A workshop on the Crawfordville Town Plan is set for July 27 at the new county community center from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. with a special emphasis on working with the local business community.

    Two more workshops are also set in August for the general public.

    The focus of the July 27 workshop will be coordinating the Crawfordville Town Plan with Crawfordville’s business community.

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  • Mowrey Law Firm hosts mixer

    The Mowrey law firm recently hosted a mixer for Chamber members that also served as an open house for its re-opened Crawfordville office, and to announce that longtime Crawfordville attorney Robert Routa has now joined the firm.

    The mixer was held on Thursday, June 17 at the Mowrey office on the square of the Wakulla County Courthouse.

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  • Accomplishments and promotions

    Government

    Sopchoppy City Clerk Jackie Lawhon has been elected the president of the Florida Association of City Clerks.

    Lawhon was voted in by her peers of municipal and deputy clerks, which includes more than 550 from around the state.

    “I am very excited about this opportunity,” Lawhon said.

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  • Message from the President 07.01

    Greetings Fellow Chamber Members and Friends:

    We’re at the halfway mark for what has proved to be a very trying year for Wakulla County. However, in all things a silver lining must be sought. With that said, the Wakulla Chamber has been fully engaged in providing support to our local business community and its residents.

    Included in the paragraphs that follow is a re-cap of the prior month activities which focused on the following areas: advocacy, community, membership, education and upcoming events.

    Advocacy

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