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Lake City Pregnancy Care Center staff members Brittany Schied (from left), Charlene Brown and Rosalindo Caballero display T-shirts for the upcoming Pregnancy Care Center 5K Walk/Run 4 Life. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Lake City Pregnancy Care Center staff members Brittany Schied (from left), Charlene Brown and Rosalindo Caballero display T-shirts for the upcoming Pregnancy Care Center 5K Walk/Run 4 Life. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

‘Every Step Changes Lives’ at Pregnancy Care Center walk

TONY BRITT
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
The mission of local pro-life advocates to save babies, infants and families will be celebrated next weekend during a fundraiser for the local Pregnancy Care Center.The 2026 Pregnancy Care Center 5K Walk/Run 4 Life will take place Saturday, Sept. 26.
Westside Elementary students celebrate their first 4-H Healthy Habits lesson, ‘Choose to Move.’ Students learned that movement can happen in many different ways and throughout the day. (COURTESY UF/IFAS EXTENSION COLUMBIA COUNTY)

Westside Elementary students celebrate their first 4-H Healthy Habits lesson, ‘Choose to Move.’ Students learned that movement can happen in many different ways and throughout the day. (COURTESY UF/IFAS EXTENSION COLUMBIA COUNTY)

Westside students ‘choose to move’ with 4-H

NEWS STAFF
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
By Heather M. FutchColumbia County ExtensionThere was plenty of movement at Westside Elementary School recently as students jumped, stretched, danced and discovered that being physically active doesn’t have to look the same for everyone.
Lake City firefighters Sam Watkins (from left), Nick Chesser, Jerney Morgan, Daniel Dohrn, Gavin McAllister and Lt. Robert Oliver hold a banner promoting the Lowe’s grant that is funding future renovations of the Lake City Fire Department living quarters. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Lake City firefighters Sam Watkins (from left), Nick Chesser, Jerney Morgan, Daniel Dohrn, Gavin McAllister and Lt. Robert Oliver hold a banner promoting the Lowe’s grant that is funding future renovations of the Lake City Fire Department living quarters. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

LCFD dorms, restrooms to get facelift

TONY BRITT
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
The Lake City Fire Department will be getting an internal facelift for the firefighters' living quarters, dormitories and restroom facilities as the result of receiving a $50,000 Lowe’s grant.
Approximately 400 families received food at the Lake City Police Department’s quarterly food distribution from Farm Share on Sept. 5. (COURTESY LAKE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT)

Approximately 400 families received food at the Lake City Police Department’s quarterly food distribution from Farm Share on Sept. 5. (COURTESY LAKE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT)

LCPD feeds 400 families through giveaway

NEWS STAFF
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Approximately 400 families were fed thanks to the Lake City Police Department and Farm Share.The LCPD hosted a quarterly community food giveaway on Sept. 5, serving approximately 400 families.
LSHA Executive Director Dale Williams said he doesn’t expect the moving-out process at the main hospital building to extend beyond the end of the year. (FILE)

LSHA Executive Director Dale Williams said he doesn’t expect the moving-out process at the main hospital building to extend beyond the end of the year. (FILE)

LSHA still moving out of main hospital building

MORGAN MCMULLEN
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
The Lake Shore Hospital Authority is still working on emptying out the main hospital building in preparation for its new tenants. LSHA Executive Director Dale Williams told trustees at Monday’s Authority meeting that old office furniture in the building is in the process of being bid out.

Niblack student arrested for school shooting threats

NEWS STAFF
Monday, September 14, 2026
A Niblack Elementary School student was arrested Friday night for threatening a mass shooting at the school.Erik Robert Ursry, a 12-year-old Lake City boy who attends Niblack, was charged with two counts of making electronic threats about a mass shooting after being arrested Friday night.
Columbia High JROTC cadets hold the American flag in front of the school Friday morning as they ready to raise it during the program’s annual 9/11 Memorial March. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Columbia High JROTC cadets hold the American flag in front of the school Friday morning as they ready to raise it during the program’s annual 9/11 Memorial March. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Lake City officials, Cammack remember Patriot Day

TONY BRITT
Friday, September 11, 2026
Twenty-five years later and people still remember. People still love. People still grieve and they’ve made the vow to never forget the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Craig Fugate, the former administrator of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, speaks Friday at Florida Gateway College about his memories of the 9/11 attacks. (JAMIE WACHTER/Lake City Reporter)

Craig Fugate, the former administrator of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, speaks Friday at Florida Gateway College about his memories of the 9/11 attacks. (JAMIE WACHTER/Lake City Reporter)

Resiliency, resolve in 9/11 response recalled at FGC

JAMIE WACHTER
Friday, September 11, 2026
They will never forget where they were 25 years ago when “the world changed forever” as Florida Gateway College President Larry Barrett called it.