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1A SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2012 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Green to lead Harry Wuest’s SUNDAY EDITION People’s State magical, musical Bank team. 1C career. 3A Signs TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter James Anthony Lee, 35, of Daytona Beach, is detained Saturday evening after being located hiding in a Lake Montgomery neighborhood. of the time The man was charged with several felony counts. Daytona suspect hid near houses Hunt focused on area near Lake Montgomery. By TONY BRITT [email protected] A Daytona Beach man who fled from local authori- ties in what they said was a stolen car was arrested Saturday afternoon after a brief manhunt through neighborhoods bordering Lake Montgomery in Lake TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter City. Political candidates and their supporters hold signs and wave at motorists at the intersection of Baya Avenue and U.S. Highway 90 during the James Anthony Lee, 35, day Saturday. A large crowd of candidates braved the heat for most of the day as Saturday marked the first day of early voting for the primary of Daytona Beach, was election. The county’s early voting precinct in Lake City, the Supervisor of Elections office, is located across the street. charged with two counts of burglary to an occupied dwelling, grand theft, petit theft, criminal mischief, resisting arrest, a moving 723 cast early ballots on Saturday traffic violation, fleeing and eluding police, no drivers 648 votes were cast in the Lake City office election and they are open today, a rare license, vehicle theft, cru- Polls are open from and 75 votes were cast in the Fort White occurence for a Sunday. Early voting con- elty toward a child, child 7 a.m.-7 p.m. for voting office. Columbia County has 34,382 reg- tinues at the supervisor’s office through neglect, and possession of istered voters, according to the office’s 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11. marijuana. He was booked on Sunday and all week. website. The primary election voting day will be into the Columbia County By TONY BRITT “The first day of early voting was Tuesday, Aug. 14, at precincts around the Detention Center on [email protected] great,” said Liz Horne, Columbia County county. The general election is Tuesday, $98,000 bond. Supervisor of Elections. “People were Nov. 6. A juvenile female who The local political season hit high gear waiting for us this morning when we Many candidates running for office was traveling with Lee Saturday when more than 700 voters cast opened up and there’s been a steady flow stood in the heat at the intersection of was taken into custody. ballots in the primary election. of traffic all day.” Baya Avenue and U.S. Highway 90 in Lake Authorities did not release According to information from the Early and absentee voting will continue City Saturday and waved at motorists, as Columbia County Supervisor of Elections daily until Saturday, Aug. 11. The polls are well as voters arriving across the street at ARREST continued on 7A Office, 723 votes were cast Saturday — open from 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. for the primary the Supervisor of Elections office. Reptile refugees keep park closed High water keeps Recreation Area. and close to the playground Debby. There are so many areas because of the high Falling Creek Park, alligators, snakes snakes and alligators pres- water. That’s some of the which also suffered dam- on the move. ent, county officials were only dry area available, age from Tropical Storm forced to keep the park on so it’s got the wildlife in Debby’s rains, was cleaned By TONY BRITT lockdown until conditions the area where the public and reopened two weeks [email protected] improve. normally uses. It’s another ago. “The water is crossing safety concern.” Pittman said he is uncer- Snakes and alligators like most of the trails and has Pittman said the Alligator tain when the Alligator Lake the playground, too. everything flooded around Lake Public Recreation Public Recreation area will An abundance of the the park area to where it Area and Rum Island Park reopen. reptiles continue to seek is unsafe to be used,” said on the Santa Fe River are “It’s hard to say when refuge from flood waters Clint Pittman, Columbia the only two Columbia it will reopen just because COURTESY on the dry area around the County Landscape and County Parks that remain of the fact that the water is Alligator Lake Recreation area in Lake City remains closed. picnic pavilions and the Parks director. “We do closed because of high not receding a lot because High water in the park still poses a hazard with increased playground equipment at have a lot of alligators and water levels and dam- alligators and snakes in the recreational areas of the park. the Alligator Lake Public snakes that are up around ages from Tropical Storm REPTILES continued on 7A Vol. 138, No. 138 Opinion............... 4A CALL US: SPORTS COMING (386) 752-1293 Obituaries ............. 5A 91 73 TV Listings ............ 4D PEOPLE TUESDAY SUBSCRIBE TO Thunderstorms THE REPORTER: Advice ................ 5D Phelps will be National Night Out Voice: 755-5445 Puzzles.............. 3B, 5B Fax: 752-9400 WEATHER, 8A missed. 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Later you wasting state dollars?’ U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros- that evening, police say Because it’s the right Lehtinen, R-Fla., met with the man burglarized a thing to do. That’s why the head of the National home and then tried to use you’re doing it.” Oceanic and Atmospheric a stolen credit card at a Administration this week gas station. to discuss funding options Womack says the Report: Justifiable for the Aquarius Reef man was taken into cus- force used in raid Base. The undersea lab in tody Saturday morning. the Florida Keys National Additional details about his MIDDLEBURG Marine Sanctuary has arrest were not immedi- — Authorities say north allowed scientists to live ately available. Florida sheriff’s deputies and work underwater for used justifiable force in a days at a time. shootout during a meth Scott a hit at lab raid that ended with After meeting with ASSOCIATED PRESS NOAA Administrator Jane a detective and a suspect In this undated photo released by One World One Ocean, Sylvia Earle looks out of a port- gathering dead. Lubchenco, Ros-Lehtinen hole from Aquarius, the undersea research laboratory in the Florida Keys. Aquarius is part of said neither the agency’s JACKSONVILLE A State Attorney’s nor the White House’s NOAA’s National Undersea Research Program, but the budget has been cut by the federal — Gov. Rick Scott shot Office review says Clay budgets include funding government. back Saturday at oppo- County Sheriff’s deputies for Aquarius. nents who have sued and fatally shot Ted Arthur Ros-Lehtinen said Hall and six other passen- Afghanistan. He also is criticized his conservative Tilley in response to the remote research takes gers in April from a small Soldier killed in survived by his wife and agenda and was cheered shots Tilley fired at them the humanity out of sci- boat adrift with engine Afghanistan an infant son. by an audience who sup- during the February raid. ence. But she also said trouble off the Florida One of Sitton’s high ports his efforts to drug The review released LARGO — Family mem- she was encouraged coast. None had authori- school baseball team- test welfare recipients, Friday said Tilley and bers say a Tampa Bay-area that Lubchenco will zation to enter the United mates at Indian Rocks strip teachers of tenure other suspects had meth soldier has been killed in explore other funding for States. Christian School also was and make Florida more in their systems when Afghanistan. Aquarius. The U.S. Attorney’s killed in Afghanistan. Cpl. business friendly. the shootings occurred. The family of Staff Sgt. A private foundation also Office says the other Frank Gross died in July Scott was a big hit Sheriff Rick Beseler told Matthew Steven Sitton is raising money to keep passengers told investiga- 2011 when an improvised addressing a gathering The Florida Time-Union says Army officials told the lab running. tors that they had left the explosive device caused a organized by the con- that the review “confirms them Thursday that the Bahamas three days ear- vehicle roll-over. servative RedState blog, what we knew from the 26-year-old died this week lier with Miller and Hall, drawing laughs several beginning.” after stepping on an impro- 2 plead guilty to who were going to take times as he made fun of Detective David White vised explosive device in them to the Miami area.