1A SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2012 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Spiritual journey Observe the 5 ‘Ds’ SUNDAY EDITION leads Folston to keep insects back to college. 1B away this summer. 1D Fighting the sea Whitfield out at RMS at Cedar No reason given, but Key comp-time probe underway at school. SRWMD working By LAURA HAMPSON to fight saltwater
[email protected] intrusion. Bessie Whitfield will not serve a By LAURA HAMPSON third year as principal of Richardson
[email protected] Middle School. Whitfield, who like other school CEDAR KEY-The administrators was under a one- Suwannee River Water year contract, was not reappoint- Management District is ed to the position for the 2012-13 working with state and local school year, said Michael Millikin, agencies to address saltwa- Columbia County School District ter intrusion on Cedar Key’s superintendent. water supply. He declined to give specific rea- The Cedar Key Water sons for not rehiring Whitfield. and Sewer District officials Millikin said he believes “per- announced Tuesday that sonnel decisions should not be due to the aired in public.” d r o u g h t However, Millikin did confirm and low Saturday that the district is inves- groundwa- tigating Richardson’s use of com- ter levels, pensatory time, which is time off FILE r esidents with pay for overtime work, com- Richardson Middle School principal Bessie Whitfield (left) and teacher Bernice Presley discuss renovations to the should not monly known as comp time. school’s auditorium in 2010. drink the “The district has an ongoing trators.