Project1:Layout 1 6/10/2014 1:13 PM Page 1 NHL: Lightning, Panthers start 1st-round matchup / B2 MONDAY TODAY CITRUSCOUNTY & next morning HIGH 90 Partly sunny and LOW warm with low humidity. 61 PAGE A4 www.chronicleonline.com MAY 17, 2021 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community $1 VOL. 126 ISSUE 221 NEWS BRIEFS Kickstart for abandoned project Citrus County COVID cases Inverness City Council will consider Wyld Palms subdivision plan changes According to the Florida Department of FRED HIERS out of Gulf Breeze goes through changes. The sale is tied to the four- and five-bedroom homes, ac- Health, 10 positive Staff writer with the sale, it would already be changes. The council meeting be- cording to the developer’s presen- cases were reported in entitled to build 398 units, mostly gins at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, tation to the council. After lying dormant and mostly condominiums, in the gated com- Citrus County since the 212 W. Main St., Inverness. For more than a dozen years, in disarray, the potential new munity on the banks of Lake Tsala “If Garden Streets doesn’t pur- the subdivision has been left latest update. owners of Wyld Palms develop- Apopka on East Turner Camp chase the Wyld Palms property, stalled in its tracks, unchanged No new deaths were ment will ask the Inverness coun- Road. The proposed developer is the existing condominium devel- and with buildings overgrown and reported, for a total of cil Tuesday, May 18, for a new requesting the city council ap- opment approval remains un- mostly unmaintained, save for the 452. To date in the preliminary subdivision plan that prove a plan to change the condo- changed,” warned Eric Williams, community clubhouse. The origi- county, 11,239 people would allow a changed develop- minium format into 62 townhomes Inverness city manager. nal developers are no longer with have tested positive ment of the 84-acre vacant and 178 single-family homes. In addition to the townhouses, the project, Williams told the (including 99 non- community. The city’s staff and zoning board the proposed new owner is plan- council. residents). If Garden Street Communities recommended to allow for the ning on a series of upscale three-, See PROJECT/Page A6 No new hospitaliza- tions were reported, for a total of 728 hospitalized. Royal Oaks set vaccine site From The Royal Oaks homeowners associa- Surviving, sharing tion will host a full day of immunization using Coke the Johnson & John- son vaccine. There are 140 vaccines available and will be to administered Tuesday, May 18. To register, call 352-341-6269. North Oak to court? do vaccinations The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine ap- Judge eyes pointments will be available to anyone over the age of 18 be- building for ginning at 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 9, courtroom at North Oak Church, 9324 N. Elkcam Blvd. MIKE WRIGHT in Citrus Springs. Staff writer The Citrus County Health Department will The historic Coca- be administering first Cola building in down- and second doses of town Inverness has sat the vaccine. Those vacant since the super- getting their second visor of elections dose must present moved its offices to their card showing Meadowcrest more 28 days from the first than a year ago. That may soon dose. change. The second dose Citrus County com- for those receiving missioners have given their first on June 9 tentative backing to a will be from 9 a.m. to plan to use the old 1 p.m. Friday, July 9. Coke building for the A consent form courts, which has been must be filled out prior approved by the Legis- to the appointment. lature for a third Forms can be picked MATTHEW BECK/Chronicle county judge just a Walter Lawrence, a Citrus County crossing guard, directs traffic away from the Inverness Middle School where his post up at the church office year after receiving a is located. Lawrence’s book, “Life of Abuse to Success, a Child's Story,” will be published in late May 2021. from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. second county judge. Monday through Circuit Court Judge Friday. Richard “Ric” Howard The deadline to Local school crossing guard writes about personal story of abuse told commissioners at their Tuesday, May 11, make an appointment meeting that court- is June 7. Call HANNAH SACHEWICZ box of tissues.” it difficult for him to keep friends. Staff writer As a child, Lawrence was sub- Lawrence recalled a time his room space is already 352-489-1688. jected to abuse at the hands of his grandmother came to visit. While limited and it’s only — From staff reports ne local man hopes that shar- mother and father. Lawrence was playing outside, he going to get worse as ing his difficult past will help When schools closed last March, received quite the shock when his the county’s growth ONLINE Oanother child’s future. Lawrence started writing about it. grandmother ran out of the house picks up with the com- POLL Recently, Walter Lawrence, an In- “How much Jerry Springer can chasing his mother with a knife. ing Suncoast Parkway. verness Middle School (IMS) cross- you watch?” he joked. Lawrence He explained that his grand- “The west side is ex- ing guard, wrote a book titled “Life spent three months trying to piece mother noticed that his siblings ploding. Everyone in What do of Abuse to Success, a Child’s Story.” together the timeline of his life. were being mistreated inside. this room knows it,” you think? The book details Lawrence’s life As a young child, Lawrence lacked “My grandmother was always pro- Howard said. from the time he was 5, until last stability. tective,” Lawrence said. Howard suggested the old Coke building How prepared are you year. “I went to five different elemen- When Lawrence’s brother was be revamped into a for the 2021 Atlantic “The title says for itself what it is,” tary schools,” he said. This was only 5 years old, he died of walking Lawrence said. “You might need a over the course of two years, making hurricane season? See SHARING/Page A7 See COURT/Page A7 A. All supplies are bought and planning is in place. I’m ready to for any disaster. Feral hogs damage The Grove farm project B. I will have everything prepared by the first day of the MATTHEW BECK “About three weeks ago our men started to notice season, June 1. Staff writer there was a problem,” he C. When the first big For the past three weeks said Friday afternoon, storm comes, I will men working at a 5-acre May 14, while at the tree stock up. farm that grows fruit for The farm. D. I only prepare for Path of Citrus County have Sipper said workers the hurricane parties. noticed large areas of their started to notice the fruit farm torn upside down. from the trees on the To vote, visit www. The Grove is a 5-acre ground and large “pits” chronicleonline.com. farm that is a joint project See HOGS/Page A7 Scroll down the home between The Path of Citrus The Path of Citrus County page and look for the County and all six Rotary clubs within Citrus County. Executive Director DuWayne poll box in the right- The Path of Citrus Sipper inspects a damaged hand column. County Executive Director area under one of the Results will appear DuWayne Sipper said he 450 fruit trees at The Grove, next Monday. Find last believes he knows what is a fruit tree farm near week’s online poll causing all the damage: Homosassa. results./Page A3 feral hogs. MATTHEW BECK/Chronicle Classifieds . .B8 Editorial. A8 Extra puzzles . .B5 Lottery Numbers . .B3 Comics . .B7 Entertainment . 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