A3 SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $2 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM >> SUNDAY + PLUS 1D Finding Six kids, cancer Collins God in a g is state dentist’s and a colle e office diploma/3A champ Taste Buddies Opinion/4A 1B LEGISLATURE State student govt reps convene here 6A State budget Confab not so of future kind to leaders at county Hurricane Michael relief takes a toll on Columbia funding requests. By CARL MCKINNEY Tigers Callahan Register, left, Lauren Wilson, center, and Schyler Jerome. [email protected] State lawmakers have fin- ished dividing the pie, and Columbia County has seen better years and bigger slices. This bud- get cycle, the county is receiving a $750,000 appropriation for construc- Brannan tion of a rail spur at North Florida Mega Industrial Park near Lake City, a fraction of the roughly $2.3 million originally requested by this district’s state Rep. Chuck Brannan, R-Maclenny. But two other high-profile requests filed by Brannan didn’t make the cut. Lawmakers completely STATE continued on 2A Plane shot in Live Oak; search is on Photos by CARL MCKINNEY/Lake City Reporter Students from all over Florida listen to a presentation on people skills during a statewide student government conference at for ‘coward’ CHS on Saturday. The event kicked off in the morning and ran into the night. By CARL MCKINNEY [email protected] If anybody is looking to make Four years later, still no sign of Mary Robertson quick grand — and happens to know who shot at a small per- By MICHAEL PHILIPS A mother, a sister, a wife — was different. After enlisting sonal aircraft in late April — a [email protected] vanished, without a trace. help from neighbors with no A K-9 officer local agricultural spraying com- At noon on May 6, 2015, Sam success in locating her, Sam leads the pany is making an offer. Four years ago tomorrow, Robertson went to his wife’s called the Columbia County search for North Florida Ag Services Mary Robertson wandered room to ask about lunch. She Sheriff’s Office three hours Mary Rhodes has put up a $1,000 reward away from home. She was wasn’t there. later. Robertson for information leading to an last seen in the area of 158 Mary Robertson, who Several local and state agen- in this May arrest and conviction for the SW Leonard Terrace and suffers from dementia, had cies assisted in conducting a 10, 2015, file April 29 shooting of one of Southwest Parker Lane in Lake walked off before but was usu- photo. City. ally found soon after. 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Offer does not include protector. 2A SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019 LOCAL LAKE CITY REPORTER LCPD introduces civil-citation QUICK HITS Scripture of the Day program for minors’ misdeeds “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not Some teens could avoid of evil, to give you an expected end.” having a criminal record — Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV) under new citywide plan. By SAVANNAH AUBRY Thought for Today Special to the Reporter I set myself on fire and people come to watch With the help of Third me burn. — John Wesley, 1703-1791, English Judicial Circuit briefing spe- theologian and evangelist cialist Michelle Galloway, the Lake City Police Department has imple- Winning Lottery Numbers mented a new civil-citation Pick 3: (Friday p.m.) 7-6-8 program. 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Circulation............. 755-5445 $12 million toward a new of Central Florida squan- “So we horse-traded for a dominated Legislature ([email protected]) science, technology, engi- dered money the state gave better deal,” Brannan said. quickly put the finish- Publisher Todd Wilson ... 754-0418 ([email protected]) Home delivery rates neering and math building it for construction projects, Bell Road was dropped ing touches on a record (Tuesday–Friday and Sunday) at Florida Gateway College, Brannan said. in exchange for $750,000 $91.1 billion spending plan NEWS 4 Weeks . $10.70 while Brannan said he had “Every college paid the toward the rail spur, Saturday, meeting numer- Editor Robert Bridges ... 754-0428 12 Weeks . $31.67 ([email protected]) 24 Weeks . .$54.14 to sacrifice a $1.2 million price for that,” Brannan Brannan said. ous requests from freshman 52 Weeks . .$88.81 ADVERTISING request for a major econom- said. “And I hate that our “Because it was dead on Gov. Ron DeSantis, among Rates include 7% sales tax. ic development project on college did.” the vine anyway,” he said. them, $220 million to help Ad. Dir. Chris Ratliff ..... 754-0417 ([email protected]) Mail rates Bell Road to get a better The $750,000 granted for Requests Brannan made areas of the Panhandle 12 Weeks . $41.40 deal for the rail spur. the rail spur came at a price, for projects in other counties hit last year by Hurricane CLASSIFIED 24 Weeks .