Starke, Bradford County, Fla. — April 16, 2026 — Strong community opposition helped halt progress on Agenda Item 5A at last evening’s Bradford County Commission meeting, as commissioners declined to advance a motion to move forward with leasing the...

April 2026 Newsletter SSJ Sierra Club

We need to find ways to recharge the aquifer in order to meet our future water needs and meet the Minimum Flow Standards (MFL) on the Lower Santa Fe River and Ichetucknee Rivers. Conversely, the St. Johns Water Management District (SJWMD), has a...

The Tomoko Hills golf course lies within a karst landscape, where water moves quickly through limestone into the Floridan Aquifer. The site is also within the Mill Creek Sink watershed, a known pathway connecting surface water directly to the...

The next Bradford County commission meetings will be held on April 7th at 9:30am and April 17th at 6:30pm at the county courthouse. On May 2nd, the coalition opposing the facility is hosting a Community Workshop on ICE Detention Center at the...

Dear Members of the Planning & Zoning Board,I am writing to respectfully request that you carefully consider and adopt the environmental safeguards previously recommended by the Alachua County Environmental Protection Department (EPD) in your...

A Year of Showing Up, Speaking Out, and Winning TogetherIn 2025, Protecting Florida Springs proved—again—that organized people can protect water, land, and wildlife, even in a tough political climate. This was a year of persistence, courage, and...

A proposed 3,000-bed ICE internment facility is targeting Starke, Florida.Starke is a small town of 5,449 residents, located almost equidistant between Jacksonville, Lake City, and Gainesville. The site under consideration is a county-...

If Florida’s waters could host a summit, January would be the opening keynote. From spring recharge to drought mismanagement and missing environmental data, the state’s water future is up for debate - and public input matters.Here’s the landscape...

No clear answers have been provided about GRU's future operations by the Gainesville Regional Utility Authority (GRUA).At the October 7, 2024 meeting, CEO Ed Bielarski halted the established Integrated Resources Plan (IRP), stopping the necessary...