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CloZee is set to perform two nights at Resonate Suwannee, the three-day festival that kicks off tody at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park. (COURTESY)

CloZee is set to perform two nights at Resonate Suwannee, the three-day festival that kicks off tody at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park. (COURTESY)

Resonate Suwannee begins Thursday at SOSMP

NEWS STAFF
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Spring has sprung, the birds are chirping, the sun is shining, and it’s time for some great music this weekend when Resonate Suwannee takes place on the banks of the Suwannee River. The three-day Resonate festival begins today and runs through Saturday.
Live Oak City Manager Larry Sessions was approved to get a pay raise to $115,000 by the Live Oak City Council during its meeting Tuesday. (JAMIE WACHTER/Lake City Reporter)

Live Oak City Manager Larry Sessions was approved to get a pay raise to $115,000 by the Live Oak City Council during its meeting Tuesday. (JAMIE WACHTER/Lake City Reporter)

Live Oak Council approves raise for Sessions

JAMIE WACHTER
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Live Oak’s city manager is getting a raise after two-plus years on the job on a full-time basis. The Live Oak City Council approved raising Larry Sessions’ salary from $102,000 to $115,000 by a 3-2 vote during Tuesday’s nearly three-hour long meeting.

Live Oak man killed in crash

NEWS STAFF
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
A Live Oak man was killed last week when his truck ran into a stopped vehicle north of the city. According to a Florida Highway Patrol release, a pickup hit an SUV that was stopped in a construction zone on U.S. Highway 129 around 9:30 p.m. Thursday.
Mammolink 3D Mobile Mammography will have its Mammobus at Palms Medical Group in Branford on Friday. (COURTESY)

Mammolink 3D Mobile Mammography will have its Mammobus at Palms Medical Group in Branford on Friday. (COURTESY)

Palms partnering on mobile mammograms

JAMIE WACHTER
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
BRANFORD — Palms Medical Group has recently been partnering with Mammolink 3D Mobile Mammography to bring accessible mammograms to rural areas in North Central Florida via their Mammobus.

Writers Ink of Live Oak hosting workshop

NEWS STAFF
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Writers, both published and unpublished, are invited to a one-day workshop at the Suwannee River Regional Library’s Live Oak branch for four interactive sessions with the Writers Ink of Live Oak group. The workshop will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the library, 1848 Ohio Avenue South.