A3 SATURDAY/SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3/4, 2020 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $2 WEEKEND EDITION Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM SUNDAY + PLUS >> FOOTBALL FOOTBALL ‘Faigued’ Columbia Indians’ Trump tests falls to 0-2 miscues for first time prove positive for since 2011 costly 6B covid-19 Sean of the South BELOW SEE 12A SEE 12A Covid Saving St. Margarets present in area schools ‘Incomplete’ state report includes 13 Columbia schools, 6 in Suwannee. By JAMIE WACHTER
[email protected] Covid-19 is present in at least 19 area schools, according to a report issued earlier this week by the state. The report released Tuesday by the Florida Department of Health listed positive cases in students, teach- ers and staff in individual schools across the state for a three-week period in September, end- ing Sept. 26. That TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter Carswell Bill Fish (from left), Tyler Todd and Cody Pridgeon stand atop a monitoring area for the aeration basin tanks at the St. Margarets list included six Wastewater Treatment Facility on Friday morning. The aeration basin tanks will be upgraded as part of a $6.1 million project at schools in Suwannee County and 13 the facility. in Columbia County. “It appears to be incomplete data,” Columbia County Superintendent City sewage plant set for $6.1M upgrade to avoid ‘disaster’ Lex Carswell said in a text message, declining further comment. By TONY BRITT “disaster.” “We have no replacement focus on reconstructing aera- According to the report, there
[email protected] The facility, which serves the parts and we have no backup tion basins at the facility, which were 20 positive cases — 16 in sewage treatment needs of near- plan and if it should fail, it would treats the raw sewage by intro- students — in Columbia County With no replacement parts ly every home and business on be a disaster,” City Manager Joe ducing micro-organisms to it in schools from Sept.