A3 + PLUS >> Crime creeps up in county, See 3A CHS FOOTBALL SPORTS Jones pays Woods set for big a visit to UF season at Ole Miss See Page 1B See Page 1B WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2018 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM FORT WHITE The tortoise and the Solar power harebrained scheme coming FWC: Lake City man caught trying to snag a forbidden snack in Stuart 2A to south county Proposed project will be 2nd solar slice plant in Columbia. By COREY ARWOOD of life
[email protected] A second solar power project is slated Snapshots for construction in Columbia County, according to the Austin, Texas company of what was behind it. The question remains, though, what happening power company will buy the fresh whole- sale electricity? downtown Core Solar, the company develop- ing the project, said it didn’t have that Tuesday answer, or at least couldn’t reveal it just yet. Photos by CARL MCKINNEY/Lake City Reporter Now they’re looking for buyers of the TOP: Laurence Breyton, curator for energy soon to be generated from the Gateway Art Gallery, shows off the Florida sunshine beating down on 1,060 gallery’s featured artist, Michele acres of land along U.S. Highway 27. Powell, a professional photog- The company plans to install the 74.9 rapher born in France. RIGHT: megawatt solar photovoltaic facility Natalie Metzger, owner of The about 20 miles southwest of Lake City, Music Academy, watches as her below Fort White. pupil, Aubrey Elder, demonstrates SOLAR continued on 3A her developing skills.