A3 SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2018 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $2 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM SUNDAY + PLUS >> ‘THE FOURTH’ AT FGC Best of It’s time to the Best consider ballot consolidation 1C Opinion inside Big upgrades set 4A for Wilson Park SEE 6A See 6B Olin unopposed for judge When qualifying ended Friday, local attorney was only one on the ballot 8A High-tech Marchers Out in Force thwarted in 3-year search Sophisticated techniques turned up no clues in quest to find Mary Robertson. By CARL MCKINNEY [email protected] All the technological innova- tions of the last half century hav- en’t brought investigators any Photos by COREY ARWOOD/Lake City Reporter closer to solving the three-year- old missing persons case of Mary Robertson, says a Hundreds Columbia County ABOVE: Crowds Sheriff’s Office of marchers spokesperson. hit streets lined up along On May 6, Lake DeSoto 2015, Robertson’s and set out husband report- ed the 61-year-old for babies across down- Robertson town Lake City woman missing for a plannd after she vanished without a trace By COREY ARWOOD 90-minute walk. from their home near Southwest [email protected] LEFT: Keith, Barwick Terrace and Southwest orn at 27 weeks, weigh- Kendall and Parker Lane. She suffers from ing one pound, 13 Misty Olive, of dementia. Bounces and measuring White Springs, “We would love to find her 12 inches long, Kendall Olive were the 2018 alive and reunite her with her spent the first three months March for loved ones,” CCSO spokesperson of her life in a neonatal inten- Babies ambas- Murray Smith said days before sive care unit in sador family. the three-year anniversary of the Gainesville. What Kendall, 2, was disappearance. “But as time goes Born rough- by, that fades and then you just do you ly two months born at 27 want to get closure for the family.” think? premature, at weeks, Misty Olive said. Robertson’s husband told depu- n Let us just under seven months, Kendall ties in 2015 she’d wandered away know in a from the home before lunch. Letter to suffered from the Editor. respiratory dis- Investigators used every tool See 4A. tress syndrome. available, Smith said, including a Misty and Keith helicopter equipped with an infra- Olive of White Springs were red system designed to find peo- unsure if their daughter would ple in densely wooded areas. survive. “When it came right down to it, “She was given surfactant the technology didn’t get us any which helped expand her air- closer,” he said. way and her lungs,” said Olive. “March of Dimes actually fund- A month after Robertson’s ed the research for the surfac- disappearance, CCSO brought tant so it helped expand her in specially-trained dogs outfit- lungs when she was I mean ted with a container apparatus MOD continued on 3A MISSING continued on 2A Suwannee commission votes to pursue opioid litigation Will seek to defray costs forward with a plan to take legal Commission on Tuesday unani- spent fighting the epidemic. on the issue.” of epidemic in county. action against yet-to-be-named mously voted to hire Gainesville- “This is a nationwide problem There was little discussion bad actors over the public costs based law firm Avera & Smith and it has impacted our communi- about who might be party to By CARL MCKINNEY associated with the opioid crisis, a to file a lawsuit that could target ty and will continue to do so,” said the lawsuit, Harris said, which [email protected] proposal that was met with some drug manufacturers, distributors Suwannee County Administrator became the main point of con- trepidation here. or any other potentially liable Randy Harris. “We are confident Suwannee County is moving The Suwannee County party to recoup funds that were that we have already spent money OPIOIDS continued on 2A Vol. 143, No. 286 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER (386) 752-1293 Obituaries . 7A BULL’S BILL Puzzles . 2-3B SUBSCRIBE TO CCFR walks in support THE REPORTER: 88 63 Business . 1C of cancer legislation , 7A Voice: 755-5445 Life . 1D Fax: 752-9400 Partly cloudy, 2A 2A SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2018 DAILY BRIEFING LAKE CITY REPORTER 5th judge seated in Bayfield case QUICK HITS Scripture of the Day Mineral-rights Andrew Decker III, who asked that another judge be worth of “mitigation cred- suit sees fourth recused himself in March assigned to the case. its” the county bought “And the peace of God, which passeth all under- substitution. amid objections mainly The original judge, Wes from Bayfield. DEP froze standing, shall keep your hearts and minds through stemming from his previ- Douglas, recused himself the credits last year after Christ Jesus.” ous run-in with the direc- that same month because PCS Phosphate White — Philippians 4:7 (KJV) By CARL MCKINNEY tor of one of the law firms. he owns land near the miti- Springs claimed miner- [email protected] Law firm GrayRobinson gation bank’s property. al rights over Bayfield’s represents Bayfield in the The lawsuit between land. Thought for Today For the fourth time, the case, but the director of Bayfield and PCS is If regulators don’t judge overseeing a miner- the firm previously served already standing in the unfreeze the credits, Olsin al-rights lawsuit with impli- on the hearing way of one is prepared to assist the Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. cations for county devel- panel of the The lawsuit major county county in litigation against — Evelyn Waugh, 1903-1966, English author opment projects has been state’s Judicial between development Bayfield, County Attorney reassigned. Qualifications Bayfield and PCS project, County Joel Foreman told commis- Judge Commission, Manager Ben sioners during the March 1 Winning Lottery Numbers Darren which in 2015 is already stand- Scott said in meeting. ing in the way of Pick 3: (Friday p.m.) 0-2-9 Jackson found Judge March. Any development proj- Pick 4: (Friday p.m.) 5-7-8-7 becomes Decker guilty one major coun- Columbia ect that affects a wetland Fantasy 5: (Friday) 4-5-13-15-21 the fifth of failing to dis- ty development County offi- requires either the use of judge to close conflicts project, County cials have mitigation credits, which See an error? Jackson oversee the of interest, Manager Ben raised the pos- are based on the ecological legal battle among eth- sibility of legal value of conservation land The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news between Bayfield Mitigation ics violations. Scott said in action against continually maintained by items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, in its legal battle with PCS As a result, March. Bayfield. a mitigation bank to offset please call the editor. Corrections and clarications will Phosphate White Springs the Florida The the impact of development, run in this space. Thanks for reading. over mineral rights to the Supreme Court sentenced County Commission on or more expensive on-site Bayfield’s land, according Decker to a six-month sus- March 1 approved hir- mitigation. Submissions to a reassignment order. pension from the bench ing attorney Eric Olsin The county purchased The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and caption The previous judge, Greg last year. of Hopping Green & 27.7 mitigation credits from information to run at the discretion of the editor. If you would Parker, recused himself in Decker was assigned Sams, who will push the Bayfield in 2011. like to see your organization in the newspaper, send the picture April. to the Bayfield case after Florida Department of The credits stay with the and information to Associate Editor Justin Caudell at Before Parker, the case Judge Mark Feagle recused Environmental Protection mitigation bank until the [email protected]. was in the hands of Judge himself in January and to recognize $900,000 county is ready to use them. Lake City Reporter to get local governments tageous, Eric Romano of Several Columbia County HOW TO REACH US BUSINESS..............754-0419 Main number ........(386) 752-1293 OPIOIDS across the East Coast on the Romano Law Group in pharmacists spoke out CIRCULATION board with similar litigation. 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