Land: Did Harris Make Dirty Deal?
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A3 + PLUS >> Parkview Baptist providing cold weather shelter, See Below PREP FOOTBALL PREP SOFTBALL Kroeger: Special Tigers Chasteen commits to keep on winning Emory and Henry See Page 10A See Page 10A TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2020 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM SUWANNEE COMMISSIONER QUESTIONS ADMINISTRATOR’S ROLE Land: Did Harris make dirty deal? Corporation looks to tioned by a new county NCYT, LLC, which is now why and what are we going tonight’s BOCC meeting, the railroad tracks. make huge profit off commissioner. looking to to do to pre- which starts at 6:30 p.m. at Once Cobble agreed, county land deal. Travis Land, who took sell that vent if from the Judicial Annex. Harris took over the deal office Nov. 17, questioned land for happening The entire parcel was for the county. By JAMIE WACHTER County Administrator nearly 10 again?” sold by Brian Cobble for And that is where Land [email protected] Randy Harris’ role in the times the Land said. $160,000 with Don Hale, a is afraid the best interest of purchase of 11.14 acres price. Harris county commissioner, first Suwannee County taxpay- LIVE OAK — A land north of Interstate 10 of a “The declined approaching Cobble about ers may have fallen by the deal that netted Suwannee 19.61-acre parcel along U.S. Land people of Harris comment, the county’s interest in the wayside. County property for a new Highway 129. The remain- Suwannee County deserve saying he was prepared property for the fire station, fire station has been ques- ing land was purchased by to know what happened and to provide a statement at the county’s first north of DEAL continued on 3A Lake City’s Revving up for the holidays getting nothing for Christmas Drive-through idea was not embraced parade nixed for by the public. The Lake City lack of interest. Rotary Club announced Staff report Saturday it was pulling the plug on the drive The Lake City through parade because Christmas Parade could not enough people in the not be saved this year. community were getting Not even by the Lake behind it. City Rotary Club. “A new idea for 2020 After the City of Lake was devised to celebrate City denied permits for safely and a plan was put all parades this fall — into action to bring a dif- Columbia High School ferent type of Christmas Homecoming, Veterans Parade to Lake City,” Day and the Rotary Lake City Rotary Club Christmas Parade — President Lee Pinchouck that meander through wrote in an undated news the heart of Lake City release. “Unfortunately, — the Lake City Rotary due to a lack of partici- Club came up with the pation, the decision has outside-the-box idea of been made to cancel the having a drive-through Christmas Parade this parade outside the city year. limits on the Florida “The Rotary Club of Gateway College cam- Lake City worked tire- pus. lessly to come up with an Rotarians planned to alternate solution to the have the parade floats annual Christmas Parade stationary and allow when it became apparent motorists to drive that parades would not through the displays, be allowed this year due meandering through the to covid-19, i.e. Veteran’s TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter sites on the FGC road- Lance McDonald works on setting up a Christmas display outside the Lewis Insurance office Monday afternoon. ways, but that unique PARADE continued on 2A Owner Brian Lewis was helping with the decorations as well. Schools still offering online classes Parkview Baptist DeSantis, Corcoran Corcoran that will keep the dence is overwhelmingly Beach, called the closure stress importance of online option available and clear, virtual learning is of schools during the pan- providing cold in-person learning. provide just not the same as being demic “probably the big- protec- in person,” said DeSantis, gest public health blunder News Service of Florida tions for who has argued that in modern American histo- weather shelter school-dis- schools are safe amid the ry.” Florida and other states TALLAHASSEE — trict fund- pandemic. closed schools in March Church opening Wednesday night to provide Public school instruction ing. “We wanted to figure out as the pandemic hit, and a cold weather shelter for will continue in-person and But a way to still offer the par- some areas of the country fellowship hall those in need. online this spring as coro- DeSantis DeSantis ents choice, but to really have shuttered classrooms next few nights. “It’s one of the benefits navirus cases continue to and put the onus on the school again this fall. that we can provide for increase across Florida, Corcoran emphasized districts to be monitoring DeSantis said the harm Staff report our community,” Parkview Gov. Ron DeSantis and the importance of in-per- this, and when they see from the closure of schools senior pastor Mike Tatem Education Commissioner son learning. The order students fall behind, to will “reverberate” for With the temperature said. “We can offer our Richard Corcoran said requires students strug- really be affirmative and years and labeled people dropping as December homeless and indigent pop- Monday. gling with virtual learning engaging with the par- who advocate for closing arrives, Parkview Baptist ulations a warm meal, a Appearing at Boggy to shift to brick-and-mor- ents,” DeSantis continued. schools as “today’s flat Church is rising to the occa- warm shower and a warm Creek Elementary School tar classrooms unless their DeSantis, who attended earthers.” sion. place to stay.” in Kissimmee, DeSantis parents formally object. a high-school football play- The church is opening supported a new order by “The data and the evi- off game Friday in Vero CLASSES continued on 2A its fellowship hall through SHELTER continued on 2A Vol. 146, No. 181 Obituaries . 2A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER (386) 752-1293 Opinion . 4A Advice & Comics . 5A SUBSCRIBE TO 51 27 THE REPORTER: Classified . 6A-7A Voice: 755-5445 Fax: 752-9400 Sunny, 2A Sports . 10A 2A TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2020 LOCAL LAKE CITY REPORTER CLASSES “offers our public schools instruction. Democrat, called DeSantis’ a much-needed measure Corcoran’s latest order approach to the pandemic QUICK HITS Continued From 1A of reassurance for the new also outlines learning and “bullish,” with “a lack of Scripture of the Day year.” supplemental intervention empathy that really is my “All you had to do is “Florida’s schools remain services, with an empha- greatest concern as we’ve “And the world passeth away, and the lust talk to a teacher, they all underfunded, and covid- sis placed on reading and gone through this pandem- thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abi- said the same thing, that it 19 continues to create ter- mathematics. ic.” deth for ever.” was not the same, and that rible disruption, but the Almost 40 percent of the “Every community is — 1 John 2:17 (KJV) kids were falling behind,” state’s support for students state’s public-school stu- going to be a little different. DeSantis added. on-campus and off should dents have been studying Every community is see- The Florida Education remain stable this spring,” remotely in the current ing different spikes,” Fried Association teachers union a news release from the semester. said on Monday. “Not giv- and other plaintiffs filed a union said. The plan for the spring ing that type of authority to Thought for Today lawsuit this summer chal- FEA President Andrew came after state officials the locals and not trying to Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. lenging a July order by Spar suggested the state worked with the Florida show leadership on this has — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American Corcoran that was aimed could also suspend “high- Association of District really been his downfall. president at reopening schools. stakes standardized test- School Superintendents. He really has lost a lot of The plaintiffs argued that ing” or that tests be made Appearing at the news the public’s trust in dealing Corcoran’s order would less “make or break,” so conference, Osceola County with this response.” force teachers to “need- students and teachers can Superintendent Debra Pace Since Nov. 15, the state Winning Lottery Numbers lessly expose themselves catch up from the coronavi- said the order provides has averaged more than to a deadly and conta- rus disruption. districts a “bit more fiscal 8,500 new coronavirus Pick 3: (Sunday p.m.) 8-5-5 gious virus based solely A key issue in the union stability,” while helping par- cases a day, the highest rate Pick 4: (Sunday p.m.) 1-2-4-2 on a blanket and arbitrary lawsuit involved part of the ents not ready to send their since late July. Fantasy 5: (Sunday) 19-30-31-32-35 decision that schools July order that dealt with children into brick-and- Asked about requests to must reopen for in-person the way public schools mortar classrooms. require Floridians to wear See an error? instruction or lose their are funded. The order “We do know that learn- masks, DeSantis main- The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news funding.” effectively conditioned ing happens best in a class- tained his opposition to items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, A Leon County circuit a portion of money on room with a caring teacher, issuing such mandates. please call the editor. Corrections and clarifications will judge in August sided with school districts submit- surrounded by their peers,” “How has that worked run in this space.