A3 + PLUS >> CRC gets a little off course, Opinion/4A WEIGHTLIFTING SOFTBALL Tri-meet Gators host for CHS Florida State See Page 5A See Page 5A THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2020 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Landlord jailed for tossing tenant’s things Virus in exchange for unpaid rent, Street around 12:30 p.m. Monday. By CARL MCKINNEY according to the Lake City Police Pierce evicted the tenant without
[email protected] Department. State law has a name going through the proper process, according to an LCPD report. A landlord and former County for that, officers told the landlord On Saturday, the tenant was told hitting Commission candidate abruptly — grand theft. John Merle Pierce, 57, was she’d been evicted and given only kicked out one of his tenants 20 minutes to retrieve her belong- over the weekend, then tried to arrested after officers responded hold her possessions hostage to a call on Southeast Putnam LANDLORD continued on 2A Pierce close to TRIVIAL PURSUITS home Georgia woman in Alachua County has novel coronavirus. By CARL MCKINNEY
[email protected] Now officially a global pandemic, the novel coronavirus outbreak is hit- ting closer to home. In Alachua County, a 68-year-old woman visiting from Georgia has tested positive for the novel coro- navirus, health officials there con- firmed. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization on Wednesday declared a pandemic as the United States was grappling with more than 1,000 cases. Columbia County’s health director, Thomas Moffses, gave a statement in response to news of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel corona- virus, rearing its head in Lake City’s neighbor to the south.