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Home/Getting around/High Springs Officials Resurrect Idea To Transform Railway To New Recreational Trail High Springs Officials Resurrect Idea To Transform Railway To New Recreational Trail By Haleigh Donahue April 9, 2021 For Tom and Linda Hewlett, interest in establishing a recreational trail in their community began with the creation of a bicycling club. The Hewletts, residents of High Springs for 15 years, began their involvement within the community by creating a local High Springs bicycling club: the Yellow Bellied Sliders Bicycling Society. Taking its name after the most common turtle in the High Springs area, the club was established in 2009. Through their biking, the Hewletts became aware of the abandoned CSX Railway, which runs directly through the downtown area of High Springs. In 2014, after the CSX railroad tracks were pulled from the ground, talk about establishing a rails-to-trails project in High Springs began. For seven years, Tom, 69, a ....
Above: Listen to a version of this story by Nicholas Marcinko that aired on WUFT-FM. The recent initiative for a new north central Florida county has wavering support among a group of people living in western Alachua County. On Thursday night, though, discussion of the idea made it onto a local municipal meeting agenda, signaling some level of legitimacy even as High Springs commissioners expressed their concerns about it. Tim Marden, a Newberry City Commissioner, is leading the initiative to create Springs County from cities and areas in western Alachua County. He attended and spoke at the meeting on Thursday night at High Springs City Hall. ....