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A group of volunteers from Columbia County helps in packaging meals during the recent Meals Of Hope event. (COURTESY)

A group of volunteers from Columbia County helps in packaging meals during the recent Meals Of Hope event. (COURTESY)

Columbia County group helped address food insecurity

TONY BRITT
Friday, June 18, 2021
A contingent of Columbia County residents recently spent several hours volunteering their time to address food insecurity in Northeast Florida.

Shooting suspect turns himself in

NEWS STAFF
Friday, June 18, 2021
A Lake City man turned himself into police Friday morning after allegedly shooting an unidentified man in the chest Thursday night. Marcus Octavius Jones, 30, 424 SE Nassau St.
Jean Hamm (left) plays Connect Four with her grandson, Titan Turner, 9, during the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office Summer Nights event Friday night at Five Points Elementary School. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Jean Hamm (left) plays Connect Four with her grandson, Titan Turner, 9, during the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office Summer Nights event Friday night at Five Points Elementary School. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Resource officers host summer fun event

TONY BRITT
Friday, June 18, 2021
There was a heavy law enforcement presence at Five Points Elementary School Friday evening as a huge crowd of children and their parents flocked to the school’s multi-purpose activity area.
Tanya Parker (far left) leads students in a discussion about the Tulsa Massacre during a Northstar Family Resource Center Juneteenth program Thursday. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Tanya Parker (far left) leads students in a discussion about the Tulsa Massacre during a Northstar Family Resource Center Juneteenth program Thursday. (TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter)

Students learn about Juneteenth ahead of first federal holiday

TONY BRITT
Thursday, June 17, 2021
A brief field trip for several local rising middle and high school students, as well as adult education students, turned out to be an educational outing where they learned about Juneteenth.

Special meeting focused on Helf

JAMIE WACHTER
Thursday, June 17, 2021
The Lake City Council has called a special meeting Monday and the focus is solely on City Manager Joe Helfenberger. An hour before the its regular meeting is scheduled to start, the council will meet at 5 p.m. Monday in council chambers at City Hall, 205 N. Marion Ave.
Regar, Hogue-Pua and Tobak Ward

Regar, Hogue-Pua and Tobak Ward

LCHS civil theft trial set for November

NEWS STAFF
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
The civil theft trial involving the Lake City-Columbia County Humane Society and two of its former employees has been scheduled for November. The trial date of Nov. 22-23 were set by Judge Bill Blue in Columbia County Court last week.