Ocala News

Are you ready for your electrric bill to rise? Ocala Utility’s power cost adjustment rate will increase from $0.01245 to $0.0250 per kilowatt hour beginning Oct. 1, 2012. Quoted in the Star banner,  Karen White, the city’s utility fiscal manager says; “Fuel costs are down, but so are sales“. What this means to customers is that Ocala [...]

Anthony Elementary has a beetle bug infection that causes the children to have to eat their lunch in their classroom. The effects of budget cuts is beginning to show as the school system strugggles to keep up with the shortages. According to the Star Banner, in 2008-09, the local capital funding millage rate was cut by the [...]

Today we remember the victims of the 9/11 attacks. We will never forget!

Today’s Star Banner offers an article titled “Does level of education matter with superintendent candidates?” and it asks this question because Jackie Porter is running for Superintendent of Marion County Schools but she has no degree while all of her opponents do. I choose the title of this article because I think it more accurately reflects what the [...]

It seems like Ocala’s leading man is having some trouble. John Travolta has been sued by two masseurs in as many days for “Sexual Battery” . According to EOnline.com the first lawsuit claims: Travolta apologized for his behavior, but continued to pursue the idea of sex with the man and later suggested that they have sex with [...]

“Ocala Recycles”, the city of Ocala’s best attempt at making the community more environmentally conscious.  The city wide campaign includes the delivery of new recycling bins to most homes in the area, as well as a brand new batch of heavy duty recycling receptacles for apartment residents. This is all good news, considering the nauseating amount of litter strewn about [...]

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Early Tuesday morning around 7 A.M. approximately 40 minutes before sunrise a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle whilst crossing South Pine Avenue. The man, 44, was struck by a Nissan Altima crossing the 1200 block east to west, where there was no crosswalk.  The man was wearing dark clothing when the incident occurred, no [...]

So, it’s been a long start to the new year and the posting has been weak. I was planning to do more but I got caught up with new projects. Thankfully these new projects are going to be great not only for this website but lots of people here in Ocala. I will be posting [...]

Cameo Photo, Ocala’s last remaining local independent photo/camera store will officially be closing it’s doors “by the end of the month” according to reports. Tom Hitt, owner/operator purchased the store front over 40 years ago, in the late 70′s, and has been on South Pine avenue ever since.  Cameo Photo at one time had three separate locations in Ocala. [...]

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The Ocala Star Banner has been sold by the New York Times/Tribune along with a number of other Florida based newspapers including the Lakeland Ledger, the News Chief in Winter Haven; the Gainesville Sun and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune to the Halifax Group, a private holding company which already owns the Daytona Beach News Journal, for [...]

Jobless in Ocala?  Join the club friend, you’re not alone. According to statistics, the official unemployment rate in Ocala is somewhere around ‘11.8%‘ as of October 2011, and in September alone there were “69 layoff events” contributing to the loss of approximately 4,538 jobs. Startling to consider isn’t it? What should be more frightening yet [...]