Fort White High School thespians Gracie Norman (from left), Mason Steele, Casey Dettman, Gracey Ayers and Juliette Torres, rehearse a scene for the school’s upcoming production of Beauty and The Beast. The production is the first musical in the school’s history and the first production in the school’s new performing arts center. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Historic FWHS performance

FORT WHITE — For the past two decades, Fort White High School students in the drama program,  performed the school’s productions in the gymnasium and other venues. This year, for the first time, the students will get to have their production in a…
TONY BRITT

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

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Fort White High School thespians Gracie Norman (from left), Mason Steele, Casey Dettman, Gracey Ayers and Juliette Torres, rehearse a scene for the school’s upcoming production of Beauty and The Beast. The production is the first musical in the school’s history and the first production in the school’s new performing arts center. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Historic FWHS performance

TONY BRITT
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
FORT WHITE — For the past two decades, Fort White High School students in the drama program,  performed the school’s productions in the gymnasium and other venues. This year, for the first time, the students will get to have their production in a new performing arts center on campus.…
Gibraltar Contracting and Mark Bauer have a home in the Country Lake at Woodborough neighborhood on this year’s Parade of Homes showcase this weekend. (TODD WILSON/Lake City Reporter)

Eight houses ready for Parade of Homes

JAMIE WACHTER
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The 2024 edition of the Parade of Homes will feature eight homes across two counties. The premier new-home building showcase in North Florida returns this weekend with eight homes on display Saturday and Sunday in Columbia and Suwannee counties. The Parade of Homes, co-produced by the Lake City…

Tweaked Niblack plans approved

JAMIE WACHTER
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Modified drawings and plans for the new Minnie J. Niblack Elementary School garnered school board approval Tuesday. The Columbia County School Board unanimously approved the Phase III drawings for the new Niblack school, which will begin construction this summer. Superintendent Lex Carswell and…

Suwannee County sued over RV park approval

JAMIE WACHTER
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
LIVE OAK — The Suwannee County Commission is being sued over its approval last month of an RV park in western Suwannee County. Three days after threatening to sue the commission and the individual commissioners for approving the 139-camper site for Rusty and Vickie DePratter against its own Land…

CCSO deputies help save abducted child

NEWS STAFF
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Four Alabama women were arrested Saturday after Columbia County Sheriff’s Office helped save an abducted 7-year-old child from Brevard County. According to a release from the Melbourne Police Department, the boy was kidnapped by multiple female suspects just before 11 a.m. Saturday after they…

13th annual Fins and Pins returns Saturday

TONY BRITT
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Community fun for a good cause will reach its pinnacle this weekend when the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office teams up with the community members for its annual fundraiser combining a bowl-a-thon and fish fry, tabbed as Fins and Pins. Fins and Pins is an annual fundraiser and community celebration…

City manager interviews begin today with tour

JAMIE WACHTER
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The three-day interview process for Lake City’s managerial candidates begins today. Lake City Police Chief Gerald Butler and Don Rosenthal, a former assistant county administrator in Pasco County, will begin their three-day pitch toward becoming the city’s next top administrator with a tour of the…
Deputies from the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office responded to Fort White High School, and Columbia High School, on Tuesday afternoon after a threat was received against a ‘high school.’ (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

CCSO receives threat against ‘high school’

JAMIE WACHTER
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Threats made against a “high school” received by the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office led to extra patrols but no immediate concerns Tuesday afternoon. Sgt. Steven Khachigan, a CCSO spokesman, said the agency’s District 2 office in Fort White received a call around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, right after…
Suwannee pitcher Gracie Watley winds up to pitch against Gainesville on April 12. (PAUL BUCHANAN/Special to the Reporter)

PREP ROUNDUP: Scores and stats from 4/23/24

NEWS STAFF
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
BASEBALL — Branford 10, Fort White 5: The Buccaneers (8-12) broke a 5-5 tie with a five-run sixth inning off Davic Kasper to defeat the Indians (11-12) at home in District 6-1A action. Tucker Floyd and Austin Humphries both finished 2 for 3 with two RBIs, while Andres Maysonet, Chason Blocker and…
Suwannee right fielder PJ Davis races to first base after a hit against Rickards on Tuesday. (BRENT KUYKENDALL/Lake City Reporter)

PREP BASEBALL: Davis shines on Senior Night, Suwannee topples Rickards

MORGAN MCMULLEN
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
LIVE OAK — Senior Night couldn’t have gone better for Suwannee’s lone 12th-grader. PJ Davis connected for a pair of triples along with two RBIs and a run scored as the Class 4A No. 8 Bulldogs kept their winning ways Tuesday night, overcoming an early deficit to take down Rickards 7-4. The win…
Columbia pitcher Trayce McKenzie celebrates walking off the mound after striking out the side in the third inning of Tuesday’s game against The Villages Charter. (JORDAN KROEGER/Lake City Reporter)

PREP BASEBALL: McKenzie returns to form, helps Columbia beat The Villages Charter

JORDAN KROEGER
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
OCALA — It was never going to be easy to return to form following an offseason elbow injury, but Columbia pitcher Trayce McKenzie finally began to look like himself on the mound Tuesday afternoon. That was bad news for The Villages Charter. McKenzie struck out seven and worked out of two jams…

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