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NEWS BRIEFS Chronicle publisher retires Orange Line bus route to Gerry Mulligan has played a lead role at the paper for more than 40 years resume service MIKE WRIGHT Trina Murphy, Chronicle and as- he said Thursday during a wealth of community T C C Staff writer who has worked sociated Florida an interview in his knowledge — ask him T CCT at the Chronicle weekly newspa- second-floor Meadow- about small town details Gerard “Gerry” Mulli- since 1990, as- pers since 1981. crest office. “The newspa- of Crystal River or Inver- gan, who has led the Citrus sumes the new Mulligan said per is in good hands.” ness and Mulligan knows County Chronicle in some role of publisher. Landmark had Then-Chronicle owner who did what when. fashion for more than four The decision been for sale for David Arthurs hired Mul- Along the way, he’s made decades, is retiring as pub- comes two months 10 years and, ligan as editor in 1978 and enemies of politicians and lisher effective the end of after Paxton Gerry while he ap- he became publisher in been a hero to hundreds of F day Friday, Aug. 6. Media Group pur- Mulligan proached retire- 1990. community organizations CCT Mulligan, 67, made the chased Landmark Com- ment age, he waited for a Mulligan led the Chron- that utilize the Chronicle to - announcement Wednes- munity Newspapers LLC, sale to take place. icle through formidable get out their messages. - - day afternoon to staffers. the Kentucky-based com- “I wanted to see us years even as Citrus Director of Operations pany that had owned the through this transition,” County grew. He’s built up See MULLIGAN/Page A5 - - - F Matriarch of Chassahowitzka F - 1 - CCT F - F T FT - - F F T - - 0 Prosperity Citrus to host local event C 10 - 0 E - C MATTHEW BECK C In this photo from August 2019, Lucille Strickland and her son David, who died in December 2019, talked about the family owning and running T the Chassahowitzka Hotel. The hotel had been in the family for four generations. Lucille Strickland died July 12 at age 95. C C C E - C Lucille Strickland played central role in community for most of her life NANCY KENNEDY Volunteer Fire Department. Lucille cooked on a gas Staff writer The couple ran the hotel, a stove and they used oil lamps T hunting and fishing lodge, at night. The bed linens and - s a newlywed in 1946, with Dick’s brother Allison towels were laundered with a Lucille Strickland Chassahowitzka was just a dirt “Baldy” Strickland and wringer washing machine and left the “big city” — road with very few houses. Baldy’s wife Eloise, and Dick hung out to dry. C 1 Homosassa — and Her husband, the late Dick and Baldy’s parents, mom Gas heaters kept guests A Strickland, worked as a com- moved to “Chazzawhisky” to Arlee “Teeney” and dad Alli- warm in the winter, and no- mercial fisherman and fishing run the Chassahowitzka Hotel son Strickland. body back then had air down by the river. guide on the river. In later In those days, the hotel had conditioning. She told the Chronicle in years, he was a carpenter and running water but no electric- 2019 that back then, chief of the Chassahowitzka ity and no telephone. See LUCILLE/Page A11 - - Rainfall tapers off, but floodwaters remain - MICHAEL BATES weekend, but folks State Road 200 near Ar- moderate is 9 feet. The the river upstream gets. C - AND BUSTER who live along the rowhead Estates, which National Weather Service After Hurricane Irma in THOMPSON bloated Withlacoochee floods easily. The river (NWS) predicts the river 2017, the water level Staff writers River will have to deal there rose sharply this to peak there Friday af- reached 9.4 feet. After the F with the aftermath a bit week. ternoon at 8.6 feet. 2004 hurricanes it - -1 1 The rainfall is finally longer. The river there is cur- That could change de- reached 11.3 feet. 0 forecast to give way to Of particular concern is rently at 8.39 feet. Minor pending on how much F drier conditions this the portion of the river at flood stage is 8 feet and more rain that area and See FLOODS/Page A7
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