A3 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2019 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $2 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM + PLUS >> 1B SUNDAY Gators The 1D Preserving basics of a local romp to watching landmark 34-3 win birds Taste Buddies Opinion/4A Story, 2A 3A LCPD Fair, fair Chief site get a new name wants COURTESY Mike Nelson (left) and Tim Murphy of Columbia County Resources, which owns the fairgrounds. job in I-75 landmark Jet gets Tally Makes 1st cut as field a new narrowed from 52 to 20. By CARL MCKINNEY lease
[email protected] Lake City Police Chief on life Argatha Gilmore is a seri- ous contender to lead the Retired judge, HAECO, Tallahassee city, county all joining Police forces to spruce it up. Department after the By CARL MCKINNEY search for
[email protected] a new chief The vintage military jet in the state capital has is one of the first thing peo- Gilmore ple see driving south into narrowed Lake City on Interstate 75. the field from 52 to 20 con- The plane, an A-7 Corsair tenders. II, sits off the interstate near Gilmore, who took the the U.S. Highway 90 exit, reins as Lake City’s police and has welcomed people chief in 2009, applied for into the community since the spot Sept. 9. In her the 1980s, said Vernon cover letter, she describes Douglas, who helped get it on loan from the National her experience assuming Naval Aviation Museum in command at LCPD. Pensacola. But it needs love “I took the helm at and care, or else the Navy LCPD in an era of insta- will take it away — and was Courtesy HAECO bility, accepted a mandate almost ready to.