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Everyone at the Citrus County Network wants to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. May you be surrounded by friends, family and football this Holiday Season.

Tis the season to start decorating. Christmas lights are a passion with me. I will be dedicating a section of the site to display all of you holiday decorations. Please watch here for more information.

Business owners watch the main site for special deals this Weekend.

Tonight starts the Citrus Stampede Rodeo at the Citrus County Fairgrounds in Inverness, Florida.

Gates open at 5:30pm where you will be able to enjoy a mechanicle bull, great food, kids games, pony rides, and various vendors setup.

The Rodeo starts at 7:30pm. The Citrus County Network need your help. We are unable to be in attendance tonight or tommorrow, and are looking for a couple of people to report on their experiance.

If you are attending please email us any pictures that you may take and your account of the festivites. We will then publish them on our main site for everyone to read. You will get credit for the information and as an added bonus if you are a business owner we will place your business info in the credits along with a link to your website.

Do you like to write? We are always looking for story ideas and writers. Citizen Journalists are always appreciated and given proper credit. For more information or to submit your article please email us here.

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL
148 PM EST MON NOV 17 2008
..FREEZING TEMPERATURES AND VERY COLD WIND CHILL READINGS IN STORE
TUESDAY NIGHT…

ANOTHER BLAST OF COLD AND DRY AIR…WITH ITS SOURCE REGION FROM
CENTRAL CANADA…WILL SPREAD FREEZING TEMPERATURES AND VERY COLD
WIND CHILL VALUES TO MUCH OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA TUESDAY NIGHT AND
EARLY WEDNESDAY. PORTIONS OF HERNANDO…CITRUS…NORTHERN
SUMTER…AND LEVY COUNTIES WILL EXPERIENCE A SIGNIFICANT DURATION
OF FREEZING TEMPERATURES WITH 3 TO 5 HOURS OF TEMPERATURES BELOW
32 DEGREES ANTICIPATED.

Click Here to Read the Rest of the Statement on SearchCitrus.Com

The New Citrus County Emergency Operations Center is having their grand opening today.  Citizens and their families are invited to attend the combined community appreciation day and grand opening celebration today Saturday, November 15,

Besides guided tours of the brand-new facility, all of the agency’s specialty units also will be on display.  Adults and kids alike will have the opportunity to see the helicopter as well as the Sheriff’s Office K-9s, plus the specialized equipment of the dive team, bomb unit, mobile command post, Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team (SERT), and much, much more.  Members will be on hand to point out features, offer demonstrations and answer questions one-on-one.

We will be posting pictures of the event on the home page of the website later this weekend.

The festivities are open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The public is advised to park across the street in the Lecanto Government Building’s parking lot.

November is Manatee Awareness month. Boaters and fishermen are incouraged to keep watch out for the Gentle Giants.

Now is the time of year when the Manatees start their migration into warmer waters. When the air temperature reaches below 50 degrees and the water temps are below 68 degrees they start their move.

Citrus County is the winter home for many of the Sea-Cows. Scientists believe it is because of the power plants out flow of warm water.

New speed zones have been put in place by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission. The following counties have manatee-related speed zone changes - Brevard, Broward, Citrus, Dade, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lee, Levy, Palm Beach, Sarasota, St. Lucie and Volusia.

For more inforamtion about the new speed zones please vist the FWC’s Website. or call them at 850-922-4330.

I have posted the Acceptance speech from Barack Obama and the Consession Speech from John McCain on the Main Site Please Visit Here

The results from The Citrus County Supervisor of Elections are starting to come in. Please Visit SearchCitrus.Com Results Page to be updated as they come in.

After months of campaigning in the longest campaign in history we have finally come to the end. Voters are heading to the polls in record numbers today.

So far Citrus County has not reported any problems. Other districts in the state have only reported minor, temporary incidents such as voting machine jams. They all were cleared up within a few minutes.

I have not been to the polls yet but will be going after I leave the store. While there I will try and interview a few people about their experiences.

On the main site we have installed a countdown timer that is set to our time for poll closure. We will be posting the results of all of the local elections as well as the Presidential Race.

We want to know what your experiences have been with voting, - either today or early voting. Please Click on the comments above to leave us your comments. Also please visit the main site and answer our Poll about how long you had to stand in line.