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Sumter County commissioners will consider later this month whether they want to privatize the county’s library system as hundreds of county residents voice their opposition to the idea.
The possibility was considered late in April after County Commissioner Doug Gilpin suggested that the county may want to explore the possibility of privatizing the library system because privatization has worked well in other county departments.

Hale and Wildcats to

‘pound the rock’

By Brenda Locklear

Wildwood will kick-off a brand new football season this year, with a brand new coach.

Veteran coach Jimbo Hale will move into the Wildwood head coach slot as Matthew LaBranche accepts a position in Marion County.

“This will be my 10th year on the sidelines,” Hale said of his coaching experience.

But he said he’s been involved in the strength and conditioning of football players since 1998.

      He has been on the cover of the New York Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Boston Herald - just to name a few.
He has been on television too: Live with Anderson Cooper, The Today Show, on Fox News, and Action News - just to name a few.
He receives fan mail and gifts from around the world and he lives right here in Sumter County, in Sumterville to be specific.
Chris P. Bacon, the little pot-bellied pig became an overnight star when his U-Tube video went viral just six months ago. Today, his resume would be pages and pages long.

For more than several decades now, landowners and military personnel have been involved in a continuing effort to investigate conditions on about 1,530 acres of land about a mile northeast of Bushnell used by the U.S. Army during World War II.
Now the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed its investigation and has determined that no further action is needed at the site.
The pastoral land, between U.S. 301 on the west, County Road 471 to the east, Belt Avenue to the south and County Road 532 to the north, was once the home of the Bushnell Army Airfield.