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A family rides one of the trains at Florida Gateway College’s Fun in the Park event on Saturday. (COURTESY)

A family rides one of the trains at Florida Gateway College’s Fun in the Park event on Saturday. (COURTESY)

Thousands attend ‘Fun in the Park’

TONY BRITT
Monday, October 17, 2022
Olustee Park was full of fun activities Saturday morning. Florida Gateway College held a ‘Fun in the Park’ event Saturday as one of its 75th anniversary celebration events and drew an estimated 1,500 people to downtown Lake City.

Report: Hospital fence needs facelift following punches

NEWS STAFF
Monday, October 17, 2022
A fence at the HCA Lake City Hospital is in need of surgery after a Lakeland man finished with it Friday night. A Columbia County sheriff’s deputy was working security at the hospital Friday when he was notified that one of the hospital’s nurses was trying to leave around 10:10 p.m.

NorthStar events promoting health, wellness

TONY BRITT
Saturday, October 15, 2022
The NorthStar Family Resource Center is hosting a pair of events next week to promote community health and wellness. The facility, which is located at the Ferguson Center on the Richardson Community Center property, 255 NE Coach Anders Lane, will be held in conjunction with Another Way.
Maddie Kelley (left) and Manda Perry celebrate their respective wins for Ms. U.S. National Turpentine Queen and Miss U.S. National Forestry Queen on Saturday. (COURTESY)

Maddie Kelley (left) and Manda Perry celebrate their respective wins for Ms. U.S. National Turpentine Queen and Miss U.S. National Forestry Queen on Saturday. (COURTESY)

Title town: Kelley, Perry bring national forestry crowns home

JAMIE WACHTER
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Five years after returning from the U.S. National Forestry Pageant without a crown, Manda Perry had come to terms with another empty trip to Tifton, Georgia.
Superintendent Lex Carswell speaks at Richardson Community Center Thursday on the proposed half-cent sales tax to fund new schools. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Superintendent Lex Carswell speaks at Richardson Community Center Thursday on the proposed half-cent sales tax to fund new schools. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Officials pitch half-cent sales tax for schools

TONY BRITT
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Columbia County school officials are doing their best to sell a sales tax that voters will decide on next month. That sales pitch continued Thursday at Richardson Community Center.
Dominic Cuadras (foreground) adds tape to a float prop as he, Ethan Pittman (left) and Xavier Combs work on the senior class homecoming float. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Dominic Cuadras (foreground) adds tape to a float prop as he, Ethan Pittman (left) and Xavier Combs work on the senior class homecoming float. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Food trucks joining in Columbia High homecoming festivities

TONY BRITT
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
The Columbia High School annual homecoming parade is scheduled to bring a huge continent of people to downtown Lake City on Friday. While the annual homecoming parade, scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.