A3 SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 2018 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $2 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM SUNDAY + PLUS >> DESPITE Arc North DELAY, 1C BULLETIN: Florida John TIGERS McCain extends dies at 81 ROLL reach See 2A Save on taxes 1B See 1D LIVE OAK Surgery pp y No.4 for ‘Air and o ortunit ’ peak in a standoff between Lake City official reprimanded for responding to City Councilman Jake Hill and gas-burn what he took as a threat from councilman. Assistant City Manager Paul Dyal. The fallout for Dyal came Tuesday, victim By CARL MCKINNEY air and opportunity.” in the form of a written reprimand
[email protected] Those words — an invitation made public Friday. by one interpretation, a threat by Doused, set ablaze; “Ain’t nothing in between us but another — brought tensions to a CITY continued on 2A Hill Dyal remains hospitalized nearly a month later. By COREY ARWOOD
[email protected] LOCAL HOPEFULS HIT HOME STRETCH A Live Oak mother of two set on fire on August 2 is still recovering while under- going round after round of surgeries for her third-de- gree burns, her family said. Kayla Watts, 27, recent- ly had a fourth proce- Photos by ROBERT BRIDGES/Lake City Reporter dure at the School Board candidate Stephanie Finnell, right, and supporters. Watts Gainesville hospital Saturday, the last day of early where she’s been for nearly voting, saw a crowd out front a month, according to her of the Supervisor of Elections mother, Julie Jones. office. Election Day is Tuesday. She’s averaged a surgery a week because of burns to her arms and her chest, and lesser burns to her neck and face.