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A4 + PLUS >> Burt Reynolds dies at 82, See 2A LOCAL FOOTBALL Starbucks to Tigers take get makeover on Buchholz See Below See Page 1B WEEKEND EDITION FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 & 8, 2018 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM BOCC BACKS DOWN Friday Old-time music weekend Tax hike nixed/2A Come enjoy a weekend of music, nature and fun along the banks of the Suwannee River at the Stephen Foster CCSO Old Time Music Weekend Photog on September 7- 9 in his- toric White Springs. This three-day event offers par- gets top Weed ticipants in-depth instruc- tion in old-time music tech- niques on the banjo, guitar, nod for vocals, and fiddle for all sale levels. Evening concerts will be poster presented in the Stephen lands Foster Folk Culture Center State Park Auditorium on Friday and Saturday nights at 7 p.m. Instructors will be ‘hoe’ demonstrating their prow- ess on fiddle, banjo, guitar and vocals. Concert tickets in jail are $10 at the door. Workshops instructors will be leading workshops Self-proclaimed prostitute in fiddle, banjo, guitar, and faces sex, drug charges vocals. For more informa- in sting by sheriff’s office. tion call the Events Team at 386- 397-7005 or visit www. By STEVE WILSON floridastateparks.org/park- [email protected] events/Stephen-Foster. An 18-year-old Fort White Anti-bullying fundraiser woman is facing drug and pros- A chicken BBQ will titution charges following a take place, sponsored by mid-day sting earlier this week. Connect Church and The Sarah Williams, who was Power Team, on Friday, born in Tampa Sept. 7. $8 includes leg according to quarter, mac and cheese, a Columbia baked beans and a dinner County roll. Delivery available. Sheriff’s Office Proceeds will be used for report, was anti-bullying initiatives. For arrested on more information 386-466- Tuesday and 4133 or www.connectin- Williams charged with glakecity.com. prostitution, selling marijuana and possession of drug par- aphernalia. She is currently Saturday Photos by COREY ARWOOD/Lake City Reporter being held in the Columbia Award-wnning local photographer and self-described living history enthusiast Jen Chasteen poses with the County Detention Center on tools of her trade inside Lake City’s Historical Museum on Wednesday. Veterans Vintage event $7,000 bond. Ladies Vintage Tea, host- On that day, according to the ed by the American Legion CCSO report, deputies in an Auxiliary, will take place Recognized for Olustee work Saturday, September 8, WEED continued on 3A from 1 to 4 p.m. $25 per Jen Chasteen created adult, $15 for children aged iconic image for 40th 7-16. Proceeds to benefit annual Battle Festival. local veterans programs. Starbucks Come dressed in your By COREY ARWOOD best vintage costume or [email protected] getting a hat, or try one of theirs. A local photographer American Legion Post 57, and artist was awarded for makeover 2602 SW Main Blvd., Lake depicting Lake City’s past City. For more informa- in its present with images By COREY ARWOOD tion contact Maryann at of Civil War era scenes [email protected] 386-843-2353 or Lisa at captured in the lens of her 386-466-2851. Nikon camera. The singular local franchise No Kodachrome, Jen of a Seattle-based coffee chain RHS meeting Chasteen is all digital. She will reopen Sept. 21, and will won her latest state award The Richardson High serve up the latest trendy new for her work with Blue- School Alumni Round-up Grey Army in its annual brews in an all new interior, meeting, will take place depiction of Florida’s only store management said. Saturday, September 8 at major battle during the Starbucks manager Tom noon at the Richardson The top brass of the Blue-Grey Army, County Judge Tom Coleman, left, Crowley said the store, locat- Civil War, the Battle of with Blue-Grey Executive Director Faye Warren and Lake City Mayor Community Center. For fur- Olustee, also called the ed at 2511 W U.S. 90, closed ther information call CB at Battle of Ocean Pond. Stephen M. Witt, present Jen Chasteen, in black, with the Florida 386-752-0815. Festivals and Events Association Sunsational Award on Wednesday POSTER continued on 2A for her poster made for the 2018 Discover Olustee campaign. COFFEE continued on 3A Vol. 143, No. 375 Obituaries . 3A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER (386) 752-1293 Opinion . 4A Faith & Values . 5-6A FAITH AND VALUES SUBSCRIBE TO Politics in the pew, 5A THE REPORTER: 90 70 TV guide . 2B Voice: 755-5445 Chance of storms, 2A Advice & Comics . 3-4B Fax: 752-9400 2A FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 D AILY BRIEFING LAKE CITY REPORTER COU NTY COMMISSION QUICK HITS Scripture of the Day “Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting Property tax hike nixed off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of Board backs down the timber shall answer it.” — Habakkuk 2:10-11(KJV) from threat after sales tax hike fails. Thought for Today By CARL MCKINNEY Laughter is an instant vacation. [email protected] — Milton Berle, 1908-2002, U.S. comedian Meet the new property tax rate, same as the old one, the Columbia County Winning Lottery Numbers Pick 3: (Wednesday p.m.) 6-7-7 Commission said Thursday Pick 4: (Wednesday p.m.) 8-7-6-9 night, after backing down Fantasy 5: (Wednesday) 8-13-16-30-32 on a proposed hike. At a budget hearing, County Manager Ben See an error? Scott presented commis- The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news sioners with two versions items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, of the budget for the fiscal please call the editor. Corrections and clarifications will year starting in October. run in this space. Thanks for reading. One kept property taxes at the current 8.015 millage rate, while the other would increase the millage to 8.87. Submissions Commissioners tentative- The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and caption ROBERT BRIDGES/Lake City Reporter information to run at the discretion of the editor. If you would ly approved the lower rate. Commissioner Rusty DePratter, right, argues against a tax increase at Thursday’s like to see your organization in the newspaper, send the picture Throughout the year, the meeting. Also pictured are commissioners Tim Murphy, left, and Bucky Nash. and information to Associate Editor Steve Wilson at commission repeated an [email protected]. ultimatum to voters — pass a one-cent sales tax during lated work on pause for two work on the jail without going to bring back a real the Aug. 28 primary elec- or three years to avoid rais- increasing the property tax dollar figure,” Murphy Lake City Reporter tion to fund infrastructure ing property taxes, then “so rate. said. HOW TO REACH US BUSINESS.............. 754-0419 projects and free up other be it.” “I’m OK with that, I don’t The new fiscal year Main number ........ (386) 752-1293 CIRCULATION revenue for construction of “I’m not going to vote to mind having a bare-bones goes into effect Oct. 1. Fax number .............. 752-9400 Circulation ............... 755-5445 Home delivery of the Lake City Reporter a new jail, now estimated at raise ad valorem,” Williams budget,” Nash said, laying Commissioners will have Online ... www.lakecityreporter.com should be completed by 6:30 a.m. more than $30 million, or said. out details of a a second and final budget The Lake City Reporter, an affiliate Tuesday through Friday, and by 7:30 property taxes might have Commissioner plan to do so. hearing Sept. 20. of Community Newspapers Inc., is a.m. on Sunday. ‘There’s five published Tuesday through Friday and Please call 386-755-5445 to report any to go up. Rusty DePratter Commission None of the people who Sunday at 180 E. Duval St., Lake City, problems with your delivery service. Voters gave a collective agreed, say- businessmen Chairman spoke during open public FL 32055. Periodical postage paid at Lake City, FL, Member Audit Bureau of In Columbia County, customers should “no thanks” to the first ing the county on this board, Tim Murphy comments voiced support Circulation and The Associated Press. call before 10:30 a.m. to report a service error for same day re-delivery. option at the ballot box, and isn’t necessarily addressed com- for the higher property tax All material herein is property of the and we need Lake City Reporter. Reproduction in After 10:30 a.m., next day re-delivery members of the public who in a bind just ments Williams rate. whole or in part is forbidden without the or service related credits will be issued. spoke during Thursday’s because it has to act like busi- made about the Among the speakers was permission of the publisher. U.S. Postal In all other counties where home delivery meeting overwhelmingly to live within its nessmen,’ said estimated price Bonnie Foster, who said she Service No. 310-880. is available, next day re-delivery or opposed the second. means. tag of the jail was recently diagnosed with POSTMASTER: Send address changes service related credits will be issued. Commissioner to Lake City Reporter, P.O. Box 1709, The stage was set for “There’s five jumping from Parkinson’s disease and liv- Lake City, FL 32056. Circulation ............... 755-5445 ([email protected]) commissioners to lay their businessmen Rusty $25 million to ing on a fixed income.