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Live Oak Community Redevelopment Agency Director Nicholas Frigiola said the city’s future plan for Heritage Square was to expand it westward across Ohio Avenue, which was approved Tuesday by the Live Oak City Council. (FILE)

The Jefferson Smith Civic Center could be the future home of the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office depending how renting out the 15,000-square-foot facility goes over the next five years. The SCSO is one of various county agencies and departments that need new or larger offices. (FILE)

David Chandler, who was appointed by the Live Oak City Council to the city’s planning and zoning board on Tuesday, said he felt serving the city was a ‘civic responsibility.’ (JAMIE WACHTER/Lake City Reporter)

Franklin White, the Suwannee County Commission chairman and the vice chairman of the North Florida Water Utilities Authority board, said he won’t ‘be told what to do’ after the Columbia County Commission issued an ultimatum Thursday to get elected officials off the authority board. (FILE)

Lake City Mayor Noah Walker, shown in Monday’s council meeting, said during a budget workshop Tuesday that spending $13,000 on a parade float was a ‘crazy idea.’ (JAMIE WACHTER/Lake City Reporter)

The new community center being constructed at the Douglass Center is now officially known as the Maurice E. Perkins Community Center after the former Suwannee County Commissioner, who died last November following a bout with pancreatic cancer. (FILE)