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Richardson Sixth Grade Academy Principal Lisa Lee reacts after being named the Columbia County School District’s Principal of the Year during the ‘Excellence in Education’ banquet Thursday night at The Blanche Hotel. (MORGAN MCMULLEN/Lake City Reporter)

Richardson Sixth Grade Academy Principal Lisa Lee reacts after being named the Columbia County School District’s Principal of the Year during the ‘Excellence in Education’ banquet Thursday night at The Blanche Hotel. (MORGAN MCMULLEN/Lake City Reporter)

Excellent educators: Messer named top teacher; Lee, Duval, Wise honored

MORGAN MCMULLEN
Thursday, December 1, 2022
From custodians to principals, from support staff to high-profile teachers, Columbia County School District employees had a night all to themselves.
Columbia County is pursuing a $9M state loan to help with the cost for a wastewater treatment plant at the North Florida Mega Industrial Park. (FILE)

Columbia County is pursuing a $9M state loan to help with the cost for a wastewater treatment plant at the North Florida Mega Industrial Park. (FILE)

County eyes loan to help with NFMIP sewer plant

JAMIE WACHTER
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Columbia County is looking to make another “investment” into the North Florida Mega Industrial Park.

Clay rates falling in time for holidays

NEWS STAFF
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Clay Electric Cooperative members are getting an early Christmas present: billed less for power in December. The cooperative announced Thursday that a reduction in the Power Cost Adjustment on bills will drop their rates by $10 per 1,000 kWh, back down to $149.90.
Dianna Swisher, the director of the Columbia County Public Schools Foundation, speaks at a previous year’s Teacher of the Year banquet. (FILE)

Dianna Swisher, the director of the Columbia County Public Schools Foundation, speaks at a previous year’s Teacher of the Year banquet. (FILE)

District to honor best teachers, employees

JAMIE WACHTER
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
The Columbia County Public Schools Foundation’s biggest night has gotten even bigger. The foundation is hosting its Excellence in Education banquet today at 5:30 p.m. at The Blanche Hotel, 212 N. Marion Avenue, to honors its best teachers, staff members and principals and assistant principals.
Lake City Police Chief Gerald Butler talks to residents during Tuesday evening’s ‘Breakfast with the Chief’ event at Southside Baptist Church. (MORGAN MCMULLEN/Lake City Reporter)

Lake City Police Chief Gerald Butler talks to residents during Tuesday evening’s ‘Breakfast with the Chief’ event at Southside Baptist Church. (MORGAN MCMULLEN/Lake City Reporter)

Butler shows off LCPD’s new gear over breakfast

MORGAN MCMULLEN
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Any time’s a good time for breakfast. A handful of Lake City Police officials and roughly 40 residents enjoyed breakfast casserole and coffee Tuesday during a nighttime edition of Breakfast with the Chief.

Lake City car GM guilty of sedition

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
WASHINGTON — Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was convicted Tuesday of seditious conspiracy for a violent plot to overturn President Joe Biden’s election, handing the Justice Department a major victory in its massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. A Washington, D.C.
HCA Florida Lake City Hospital CEO Jill Adams announces the $88 million expansion project Tuesday prior to a ceremonial groundbreaking. (JAMIE WACHTER/Lake City Reporter)

HCA Florida Lake City Hospital CEO Jill Adams announces the $88 million expansion project Tuesday prior to a ceremonial groundbreaking. (JAMIE WACHTER/Lake City Reporter)

Hospital breaks ground on $88M tower expansion

JAMIE WACHTER
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
HCA Florida Lake City Hospital officials traded out their surgical masks for hard hats and their scalpels for golden shovels on Tuesday morning.