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Mostly sunny INSIDE 5% chance of rain MATURE TODAY | If you are over 50 85 65 or planning to be. For details, see 2A www.mypdn.com PALATKA DAILY NEWS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2015 $1 PCSO nabs PANTHER shooting suspect PARTY after chase 23-year-old fled, but was arrested at an apartment BY ALLISON WATERS-MERRITT Palatka Daily News CHRIS DEVITTO/Palatka Daily News Palatka High cheerleaders helped lead the homecoming parade along St. Johns Avenue on Friday afternoon. A suspect accused in multiple Palatka area shootings in July was arrested Friday afternoon. During Putnam County Sheriff’s Office Capt. halftime, Another year, another Gator DeLoach said Latelvin Anthony Dontaevone Hightower, 23, was arrest- Evans and ed in an apartment on Kennedy homecoming: Palatka Bainbridge Road. Rainge were The suspect was seen named celebrated the annual high leaving the same apart- Palatka ment earlier by undercov- High’s er officers from the Drug homecoming school event with a parade, and Vice Unit who were king and working on a different queen. investigation, Sheriff’s a football game and, of Hightower ALLISON WATERS- Office Capt. Joe Wells MERRITT/Palatka Daily News said. course, the crowning of a “He got into a car in front of (the officers),” Wells said. new king and queen DeLoach said a marked patrol car attempted to stop the suspect, which led to a short pursuit. During the pursuit, DeLoach said officers saw the suspect throw a bag containing two oxycodone pills from the vehicle. See NABS, Page 5A File photo by CHRIS DEVITTO/Palatka Daily News City officials resolved an issue with cemeteries by compromising with area funeral homes. Funeral homes, city resolve Allison Waters-Merritt/Palatka Daily News Palatka High students cheer on the Panthers during homecoming festivities Friday night. cemetery issue BY ASIA AIKINS Palatka Daily News After tabling the issue last month and City commissioners approve fi nal invoice for fi re assessment fee attorney holding a subsequent workshop, Palatka City Commission on Thursday finalized an ordinance relieving city staff of burials and al tax bills for the next three years. vault sales at city-owned cemeteries. The WHAT DO YOU THINK? BY ASIA AIKINS “The bills will be due upon receipt,” city owns and maintains Oak Hill West, Oak Palatka Daily News Do you think the city of Palatka has Finance Director Matt Reynolds said. Hill East and a portion of historic Westview developed a good plan for Palatka city commissioners approved a “For property owners who wish to make cemeteries. the new fire assessment final invoice from fire assessment fee payments over time, we are looking at a Background: Palatka Cemeteries fees? Email Letters to the attorney Mark Lawson Thursday, but his deadline of around May. That is the cutoff Administrator Betsy Driggers said earlier Editor to publicforum@ work is not done yet. for when the unpaid amounts will have to this year the city was looking to “get out of palatkadailynews.com. Commissioners approved two work be calculated so that they can be rolled the burial business.” She said the cemeteries Letter writers must include orders for Lawson to coordinate direct bill- full name, daytime phone number and ing for the upcoming fire assessment fees Reynolds address. 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