SARAH CAVACINI/Palatka Daily News – Members of Coastal Florida Police & Fire Pipes & Drums begin the Law Enforcement Memorial Service in Palatka on Tuesday.

Remembering the fallen

Music and prayer carried over the Palatka riverfront Tuesday as a crowd gathered to pay tribute to the law enforcement officers who died last year.  Putnam County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Palatka Police Department officers honored four state…
Music and prayer carried over the Palatka riverfront Tuesday as a crowd gathered to pay tribute to the law enforcement officers who died last year.  Putnam County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Palatka Police Department officers honored four state law enforcement officers during the Law Enforcement…
Getting its timing down at the plate was a challenge for the Palatka Junior-Senior High School softball team Tuesday night. Then Bradford head coach Ashley Yowell made a fateful decision – she switched pitchers. It turned out to be more to the Panthers’ liking. The Panthers scored seven runs in…
Joe Riley and Jessey Nash captured the inaugural Kiwanis Club of the Azalea City Bass Tournament this Saturday at Palatka City Dock with a five-fish limit of bass weighing 24.51 pounds, anchored with a 5.95 largemouth. The event was in honor and memory of Palatka Junior-Senior High student Baylee…
ST. AUGUSTINE – Hits and runs were at a premium Tuesday night between second-seeded host Menendez and third-seeded Palatka in the District 4-4A baseball tournament semifinals. Whatever team came up with the clutch hit was going to win. Tied at 2-all in the bottom of the sixth inning, senior…
Chalk up another Florida Christian Athletic Association championship for the Peniel Baptist Academy softball team. Peniel’s Warriors knocked off Jacksonville Harvest Community, 13-3, in Saturday’s championship at the Whitehouse Elementary School, Jacksonville. Lexi Peacock (11-6) held Harvest to…
Three years of a community leader shopping at an Interlachen grocery store helped feed Putnam County children this week.  County Commissioner Larry Harvey bought 2,200 packets of tuna fish from Hitchcock’s Market in Interlachen and donated them to Feed the Need of Putnam County on Monday. He…
Putnam County officials’ request for more money from the city of Palatka to pay for unplanned roadwork expenses went unanswered Thursday.  J.T. Stout, the executive director of the Putnam County Public Works Department, told the Palatka City Commission on Thursday that the county needed an…
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I wholeheartedly agree with the excellent letter of Lynn Roberson titled “Demolishing Belton house erases jazz, Black history in Palatka.”  Let’s try to save and restore this important part of history. It might even become a destination for people taking the train from DeLand or Jacksonville to…
The St. Johns River State College softball team put the topper on the greatest regular season the program has ever had on Saturday. After Carolyn Laseter shut Pasco-Hernando State College's Bobcats down to two hits in a 1-0 shutout in the first game, the Vikings exploded for 14 hits in a 12-4 rout…
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She’s 104 years young

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It’s hard to imagine a time when a gallon of milk was 60 cents, a 16-ounce loaf of bread sold for 12 cents and everyone could fill up their gas tank for 30 cents a gallon.

A cut above the competition

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One Palatka youth is a cut above the rest when it comes to his metal work art he entered in competition through his 4-H Club at this year’s Putnam County Fair.

Putnam County deputies involved in DUI traffic stop

The Daily News compiled body camera videos received Monday of a traffic stop involving two Putnam County Sheriff's Office deputies. The Sept. 22 event took place in St. Augustine. The police…

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