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Michael Reynolds gives a presentation to the Columbia County School Board during Tuesday’s meeting on supply and demand of teacher jobs. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Teachers’ remarks limited by board

TONY BRITT

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Still negotiating for higher wages, the Columbia Teachers Association was limited in how much they could address the Columbia County School Board on Tuesday.

Columbia County Schools Superintendent Keith Couey talks to the School Board about new zoning maps Tuesday. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

School board sets hearing on zoning

TONY BRITT

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

The Columbia County School District is considering new school rezoning maps, with the imminent arrival of a new school, the closure of one, construction of another school and an overall decline in student population.

Bus crash sends students to ER

NEWS STAFF

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

SUWANNEE RANCHETTES — Several students spent Wednesday morning at the emergency room with minor injuries instead of school after a crash involving a Suwannee County school bus. The crash, which is still being investigated by the Florida Highway Patrol, occurred at 7:35 a.m.

Warren gets probation for theft, resisting

NEWS STAFF

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Plea agreements concluded a pair of cases involving an outspoken Lake City resident. Sylvester Warren III pleaded guilty Wednesday to a pair of misdemeanors, receiving 12 months of probation in both cases, which will run concurrently.

A person was killed Monday morning when a single-wide mobile home caught fire north of Lake City. The cause of the fire is still being investigated. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

One killed in fatal fire

TONY BRITT

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

A structure fire claimed a life Monday morning when flames swept through a mobile home in the Five Points area. The fire occurred at 129 NW Deer Run, a mobile home park north of Lake City.

Lake Shore Hospital Authority Board Chairman Stephen Douglas said the deal with Meridian Healthcare has everything he wants to see. (MORGAN MCMULLEN/Lake City Reporter)

Lake Shore hospital approved for Meridian

MORGAN MCMULLEN

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

A flurry of moves, motions and deals swept through the latest Lake Shore Hospital Authority meeting. After the dust had settled, however, only one property was finally dealt with, though it was the biggest piece of the pie.

Brad Dicks talks about his beginnings in real estate by helping his father, Lenvil, mark roads in a subdivision nearly 50 years ago. Dicks was named the Lake City Board of Realtors’ Realtor of the Year on Monday. (JAMIE WACHTER/Lake City Reporter)

Dicks named top Realtor after early career launch

JAMIE WACHTER

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Brad Dicks’ path to becoming Realtor of the Year started a long time ago. In fact, by Dicks’ estimation, his start in real estate came around 47 years ago. When his school day ended, Dicks’ entrance into the family business began. His father, Lenvil, would pick him up and they’d go to work.

Toby White, wanted for murder in Santa Rosa County, was apprehended Saturday in southeastern Suwannee County following a two-day search in both Columbia and Suwannee counties. White fled from a traffic stop Friday near Fort White in a stolen truck. (COURTESY SUWANNEE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE)

Murder suspect captured after manhunt

NEWS STAFF

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

FORT WHITE — A Santa Rosa County murder suspect was apprehended Saturday in southeastern Suwannee County following a two-day, multi-county search. Toby White, a 31-year-old Milton man, was captured Saturday afternoon around 1:30 p.m.

Lake City man sentenced to 20 years for child porn

NEWS STAFF

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

A Lake City man has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography on a social media site. William Ervin Daniels, 45, was sentenced Friday by Chief U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard after he pleaded guilty in September 2024.

Terrell Arline, a real estate and land use attorney, told the Lake Shore Hospital Authority board that he believes the LSHA is correct that its properties still hold a legal nonconforming use. (MORGAN MCMULLEN/Lake City Reporter)

LSHA seeks meeting with city

MORGAN MCMULLEN

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

While the City of Lake City and the Lake Shore Hospital Authority continue to share confusion regarding Land Development Regulations affecting parts of the LSHA campus, the Authority has moved forward with steps to potentially resolve that conflict.