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Campaign coffers overflow with cash

JAMIE WACHTER
Monday, June 27, 2022
In the race to grab seats on the Lake City Council, a pair of candidates are riding waves of cash. Too much cash, in fact, according to campaign financial reports filed with the city.
RE/MAX agent Missy Zecher (right) poses with her Circle of Legends award during an awards ceremony in March. Zecher was recently named number 48 in the nation in transactions by Realtrends. (COURTESY)

RE/MAX agent Missy Zecher (right) poses with her Circle of Legends award during an awards ceremony in March. Zecher was recently named number 48 in the nation in transactions by Realtrends. (COURTESY)

Zecher garners national honor

MORGAN MCMULLEN
Monday, June 27, 2022
Even amid a national uptick in interest rates, one local real estate agent is still finding ways to succeed and collect more celebratory hardware.
Kenzie Dungan (left), Columbia FFA senior president and her sister, Kaylan Dungan, Columbia FFA junior president, set up a banner outside the FFA fireworks stand Friday afternoon. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Kenzie Dungan (left), Columbia FFA senior president and her sister, Kaylan Dungan, Columbia FFA junior president, set up a banner outside the FFA fireworks stand Friday afternoon. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

FFA hopes heat leads to hot sales

TONY BRITT
Friday, June 24, 2022
The sweltering heat pushed by temperatures about the 95-degree range proved to be little to no concern for local FFA students looking to raise money for their organization Friday.
LSHA Executive Director Dale Williams said he’d be willing to go the the next Lake City Council meeting to ask about land the board donated back in February 2021. (MORGAN MCMULLEN/Lake City Reporter)

LSHA Executive Director Dale Williams said he’d be willing to go the the next Lake City Council meeting to ask about land the board donated back in February 2021. (MORGAN MCMULLEN/Lake City Reporter)

LSHA to take closer look at Hope Bridges, others

MORGAN MCMULLEN
Friday, June 24, 2022
Discussions surrounding demolishing the main hospital building at the Lake Shore campus certainly were the main focal point of Thursday’s Lake Shore Hospital Authority board meeting. That’s when the authority approved a motion to accept bids for that effort, hoping they don’t go much above the $1.
Richardson Catfish Club members look at plants, small fish and aquatic invertebrates in a ‘pour-a-pond’ at Alligator Lark Park. (COURTESY)

Richardson Catfish Club members look at plants, small fish and aquatic invertebrates in a ‘pour-a-pond’ at Alligator Lark Park. (COURTESY)

Catching up on fish, aquatic education

NEWS STAFF
Friday, June 24, 2022
The Richardson Catfish Club started with a plan to cast aquatic education into a classroom setting.
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CCSO sued over dog bite

JAMIE WACHTER
Thursday, June 23, 2022
Twenty months after claiming injuries from a K9 officer’s bite, a Lake City man is looking to inflict pain on the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office. Martinezz Bowman, 25, filed a lawsuit last month in U.S.
Lake Shore Hospital Authority board member Stephen Douglas said the property could be more valuable if the main hospital building is demolished. (MORGAN MCMULLEN/Lake City Reporter)

Lake Shore Hospital Authority board member Stephen Douglas said the property could be more valuable if the main hospital building is demolished. (MORGAN MCMULLEN/Lake City Reporter)

Razing hospital or not is LSHA’s dilemma

MORGAN MCMULLEN
Thursday, June 23, 2022
There is no shortage of options facing the Lake Shore Hospital Authority. The authority’s board made that clear at its meeting Thursday night. With Hope Bridges LLC, Meridian Behavioral Healthcare Inc.

‘Summer Nights’ coming to Melrose Park

NEWS STAFF
Thursday, June 23, 2022
Books, homework and learning have been replaced — for one night at least — by food and fun. The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office School Resource Division is hosting its “Summer Nights” program at Melrose Park Elementary School from 5-8 p.m. today.