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LCPD Click It or Ticket: Reminds citizens to buckle up
Posted June 5, 2013 04:55 am
LAKE CITY, FL –
For the past two weeks, police officers across
the United States and Florida have been
increasing their efforts to promote safety
through seat belt use as part of the Click It or
Ticket campaign. The Lake City Police Department
participated in this “wave” to help remind
citizens to buckle up while
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Posted June 4, 2013 09:35 am | Part II
Part I
LAKE CITY, FL –
Last night the City Council, meeting as the Community
Redevelopment Authority (CRA), formally approved its
first Commercial Improvement Grant and added $4,000 to
include two new gates that City Manager Johnson had
removed. Jackie Kite, the City's CRA Director, presented
the proposal to the Council. There was no site
plan; no photos; no color choices; no artists
renderings; and only one bid, that of a fence
contractor that Ms. Kite and the whole council
went out of their way not to mention, County
Commissioner Rusty
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Posted June 3, 2013 12:01 am | Part I
Part II
LAKE CITY, FL – Nineteen months after
spending $100,000 plus for a new downtown Lake
City Redevelopment Master Plan, Lake City's
downtown continues to languish. Barely any
businesses were willing to put up the 50% match
for façade improvements, so the city came up
with a plan to pay 75%, which is also not a
stunning success. On the City's Community
Redevelopment Agency Meeting agenda for Monday
evening is a request for a Commercial
Improvement Grant for a $28,000 chain link fence
with 2 gates. The only bid was that of
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Posted May 7, 2013 09:15 am
LAKE CITY, FL – Last night, the City
Council reviewed the four election districts
within its boundaries, an act required once
every five years by the City Charter. City Clerk
Audrey Sikes presented the current and proposed
boundaries, the changes of which were to insure
that each district had approximately the same
number of registered voters. Hundreds of hours
were spent redrawing the districts and the maps.
Three people showed up for the special
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Posted May 5, 2013 02:40 pm | Updated May 5, 2013
07:54 pm
LAKE CITY, FL –
This Monday night at 5:30 pm, May 6, 2013, Lake
City is presenting its new proposed
redistricting maps to the public for the first
time. The meeting, originally scheduled for May
2, was rescheduled by Lake City Mayor Steve
Witt, after it was discovered that the special
meeting was in conflict with the County
Commission meeting, which was scheduled for the
same time. Mayor Witt told the Observer, "As
Mayor of all the people of Lake City, who are
also residents of Columbia County, I wanted to
give everyone the opportunity to attend the
redistricting special meeting so that they could
participate and be heard."
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Posted February 5, 2013 07:05 am
LAKE CITY, FL – Last night in City Hall the City
Council had a new perspective. Instead of shuffling
through reams of paper the Council members were
following the meeting agenda on sleek new laptops. In a
memo from City Clerk Audrey Sikes, she advised the
council that February would be the last month for paper
agenda materials and beginning in March all agenda
material and supporting information would be sent via
email.
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Posted January 27, 2013 09:45 am
LAKE CITY, FL – On January 25, 2013, at
approximately 7:45 p.m., an unknown white male
committed a home invasion robbery of a residence
during a jewelry party. The male suspect
threatened all the ladies inside with a handgun.
He fled the scene minutes later empty handed...
Upon entering the residence, the suspect later
identified as Mr. Derick J. Lee, 24, pointed the
handgun at the ladies and began yelling, "Give
me your money
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Posted January 23, 2013 04:55 am
LAKE CITY, FL – Last night in City Hall for almost an hour the
topic of an art gallery coming to downtown Lake City was
explored. Lake City's run down and dilapidated downtown
corridor was not an impediment to the Art League's
Jeanne Van Arsdall and her fellow Art League members,
all residents of Lake City/Columbia County. The Art
League members were committed to finding a building and
a landlord with a commitment to the downtown. Dr.
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Posted January 17, 2013 07:30 am
LAKE CITY, FL – On January 16, 2013 at
approximately 5:27 a.m., Mr. Enrique R. Cutts,
27, was sitting in a vehicle and was approached
by Mr. Cory M. Douglas, 28, and shot in the face
with a flare gun. Mr. Douglas fled the scene but
was later located and arrested. Mr. Douglas was
transported to Gainesville for medical
treatment.
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