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A4 + PLUS >> Suwannee standoff ends tragically, Below AUTO RACING COLLEGE FOOTBALL Weekend winners at UF’s Carter dedicates All-Tech Raceway season to virus victims See Page 10A See Page 10A FRIDAY EDITION FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2020 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM COLUMBIA COUNTY SCHOOLS Home invasion Spick and span suspect caught after car crash Cops: More than $10K in a crash, deputies say. was stolen at gunpoint Ketrick Jervar Henry, 23, by multiple intruders. of Live Oak, was booked into jail on felony By CARL MCKINNEY charges of [email protected] home-inva- sion robbery LIVE OAK — Multiple and grand intruders broke into a theft after Live Oak woman’s home deputies Wednesday night and robbed Henry responded her at gunpoint, making off to an inci- with her phone, handgun dent on 78th Street. The and a large sum of cash, value of the items and cash according to a Suwannee stolen by the intruders County Sheriff’s Office exceeded $10,000, the arrest report. One of the suspects report says. was later arrested after the getaway vehicle was involved INVASION continued on 2A Bidding to begin TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter on Klausner mill William Highland, Columbia School District Transportation Department driver and safety trainer, uses Three foreign groups a cordless electrostatic sprayer to disinfect a school bus on Thursday afternoon while preparing for the qualify for auction, upcoming school year which begins on Monday. which begins at $30M. By JAMIE WACHTER Cleaning, disinfecting prioritized as schools set to open [email protected] By TONY BRITT The school district plans to use the entire bus.” [email protected] electrostatic sprayers to disinfect The custodians in the schools, in LIVE OAK — Let the bid- high traffic areas. The aerosol sticks addition to their normal classroom ding begin. SUWANNEE DEMOCRAT The Columbia County School to all surfaces and dries in roughly cleaning and sanitizing regimens, A virtual auction will be A virtual auction will be District is just days away from start- 10 minutes. will be able to disinfect classrooms held today between three held today on the former ing the 2020-21 school year and Custodians and bus drivers will several times a day with the use of companies for the assets of Klausner Lumber One site district officials are making the final use the sprayers. the sprayers. the former Klausner Lumber in Live Oak. preparations before classes begin “With a Viper electrostatic “They’re not cleaning, but they’re One site in Live Oak. Monday. sprayer, they’re able to disinfect a disinfecting with the machines,” Mercer International was der, Mercer has bid protec- With covid-19 perched as the top room in a lot less time,” said Todd Widergren said. “It’s not going to designated the stalking tions of a break-up fee of safety priority for the school year, Widergren, a Columbia County take the place of the cleaning, but horse bidder by the U.S. $520,000 should it not win the school district will be utiliz- Schools assistant superintendent. to supplement and enhance what Bankruptcy Court for the the auction as well as an ing additional methods to sanitize “The disinfectant sticks to all sur- we’re doing.” District of Delaware on Aug. expense reimbursement up and disinfect high traffic areas in faces, so they can go through a bus 12. The proposed purchase to $260,000 and a minimum schools and on school buses. in a matter of minutes and disinfect SCHOOLS continued on 2A price in Mercer’s stalking overbid of $1 million. horse bid is $26 million. Mercer is a Canadian com- In addition to Mercer, pany that currently owns and Binder Beteiligungs AG operates three pulp mills (Binderholz) — acting where it produces pulp for Suwannee standoff ends tragically through Timber One use in printing and writing Armed disturbance on Thursday morning, handgun, said Suwannee him by phone and on Acquisition Holdings LLC paper as well as tissues and leads to suspect deputies say. County Sheriff Sam St. Facebook, where he had — and Mayr-Melnhof Holz hygiene products. taking own life. Around 10:30 p.m. John. been posting messages, Holding AG also qualified Binderholz and MM-H Wednesday, the “Tried to make contact St. John said. as bidders for the auction, are both Austrian companies Suwannee County with him, get his side of Around 6:30 a.m., the By CARL MCKINNEY which is scheduled to begin that produce paper products. Sheriff’s Office responded the story about what took man killed himself, the [email protected] to a home off 256th Street place,” St. John said. sheriff said. at 10 a.m. today. The sale should be closed O’BRIEN — After near Ichetucknee Springs. The suspect stayed St. John declined to According to court doc- by no later than Sept. 2, an eight-hour standoff The suspect reportedly inside his vehicle and give the suspect’s name. uments, Binderholz will be according to court doc- with law enforcement, had a confrontation with didn’t come out, the sher- “We want to be sen- the baseline bidder in the uments. A sale hearing is the suspect in an armed a couple on the road in iff said. sitive to the family,” he auction and the baseline bid scheduled for Aug. 31. disturbance in Suwannee front of his home and For several hours, dep- said. “They lost a loved is $30 million. County took his own life threatened them with a uties attempted to contact one.” As the stalking horse bid- KLAUSNER continued on 2A GW HUNTER 1130 WEST US 90 386-752-5890 VISIT YOUR LOCAL CHEVRON STATION Vol. 146, No. 111 TODAY’S WEATHER Opinion . 4A CALL US: Faith & Values . 5A (386) 752-1293 Advice & Comics . 6A-7A SUBSCRIBE TO Classifieds . 8A-9A THE REPORTER: 87 71 Voice: 755-5445 Sports . 10A Fax: 752-9400 Few showers, 2A 2A FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2020 LOCAL LAKE CITY REPORTER INVASION TS Genevieve whips Mexico’s Continued From 1A QUICK HITS The victim told deputies Baja, new storms in Atlantic Scripture of the Day she was robbed at gunpoint Associated Press the Los Cabos region, the the Atlantic Basin, and by several intruders around “I have set the Lord always before me: because he CABO SAN LUCAS, U.S. National Hurricane tropical storm watches 9:26 p.m. Wednesday. One is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.” Mexico — Hurricane Center said. were posted for several of them, who was described Genevieve weakened to a The center said the Caribbean islands and — Psalm 16:8 (KJV) as an overweight black tropical storm Thursday hurricane was expected to parts of Honduras. man wearing a blue surgi- after lashing Mexico’s Los stay out in the Pacific while The Hurricane cal mask and blue gloves, Cabos tourist resorts with moving northwestward Center said Tropical Thought for Today pointed a silver pistol at the hurricane-force gusts and along the Baja coast and Depression 13 was like- weakening Thursday and ly to become a tropical victim’s head, according to heavy rains. And two new Life is far too important a thing ever to talk about tropical depressions formed Friday. But it was raking storm later Thursday and seriously. the report. the shore with powerful then skirt the Leeward The intruders took in the Atlantic Basin — — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish dramatist both on potential tracks winds and up to 4 to 8 inch- Islands, Puerto Rico, the woman’s cell phone, es (10 to 20 centimeters) of the Dominican Republic a Ruger .380 pistol and a toward the United States. Genevieve had a been a rain, creating the potential and Cuba. The early, still large sum of money she powerful Category 4 hurri- for dangerous flooding. uncertain track showed Winning Lottery Numbers had stashed away in a Ford cane with winds of 130 mph Meanwhile, two new it potentially reaching owner’s manual zip-up case. (215 kph) on Tuesday, but tropical depressions Florida by Monday as a Pick 3: (Wednesday p.m.) 6-4-9 They then left the scene in weakened as it pushed past formed Thursday in hurricane. Pick 4: (Wednesday p.m.) 5-0-5-1 a dark-colored car with no Fantasy 5: (Wednesday) 12-16-19-29-34 tag. The exact value of the ing the buses and walking school district has pur- cash stolen was redacted SCHOOLS through (disinfecting) just chased 45 sprayers and is See an error? in the report, but the felo- Continued From 1A to add another layer,” he preparing to order an addi- The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news ny charge applied to Henry said. tional 25. items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, states the total value of Widergren said The Columbia School He said the sprayers please call the editor. Corrections and clarifications will the stolen items was high- restrooms at the schools District has a total of 91 will also be utilized for run in this space. Thanks for reading. er than $10,000 and under can be disinfected two or buses in its fleet for the athletics to disinfect the $20,000. three times a day with the upcoming school year. In equipment. Submissions After speaking to the vic- use of the sprayers and the addition to the use of spray- “Hypothetically, at phys- The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and caption tim, deputies learned that same principle is in place ers to disinfect the buses, ical education (classes), information to run at the discretion of the editor.