GATORS ROUT KENTUCKY FOR RECORD 18-0 IN SEC, SPORTS B1 LEESBURG, FLORIDA Sunday, March 9, 2014 www.dailycommercial.com CAN SWINE FLY? Come see for yourself NEWARK, N.J.: Dispute at Clermont’s Pig on the Pond festival, A3 erupts over school reform, A5 LEESBURG Father of slain boy wants safer school bus stops LIVI STANFORD | Staff Writer [email protected] SPRING FORWARD In case you forgot, Daylight Saving As the clocks moved Time began at 2 a.m. Make sure to set your clocks ahead one hour. forward one hour ear- ly today, some stu- dents beginning Mon- day will be waiting at school bus stops in the dark. It is a reminder that brings back difficult memories for Robert Eubanks. WHITNEY WILLARD / STAFF GRAPHIC THERESA CAMPBELL / DAILY COMMERCIAL To this day, he wish- such thing as a safe Carlos Bailey, 80, of Wildwood watches land-leveling work being done by The Villages across the street from his 5.5-acre es he had been with school bus stop. I home on County Road 44A and Powell Road. his 15-year-old son, should have been Jonathan, on the right beside him.” morning of Jan. 12, Later that day, Eu- 1995. There were no banks received tragic Wildwood: The next boomtown? streetlights or signs to news: a truck had hit indicate to motorists his son, killing him at there was a school bus that corner. City braces for massive development explosion stop at the corner of “While there were THERESA CAMPBELL | Staff Writer ed to nearby property Tomato Hill Road and no witnesses, because [email protected] BUILDING BOOM no one was waiting that he sold for $8,500 In addition to The Villages, three other large developments of regional impact Sarah Lane in Lees- in 1988. The same in Wildwood could bring more than 15,000 new residents to the city. burg. with him, according arth movers are to Highway Patrol in- land recently sold for “It was very dark chewing up the vestigators, Jonathan $98,000. N outside,” Eubanks ground across the said in a phone in- may have been sitting E Other Wildwood res- 44A 466A street from the Wild- WILDWOOD idents and merchants terview. “There is no SEE BUS | A2 wood home where 44 SUMTER COUNTY Carlos Bailey has lived welcome the idea of 91 since 1955, so he no increasing property longer sees the pictur- values and more busi- BROWNWOOD LAKE COUNTY WILDWOOD ness in town from The 75 esque rural landscape SPRNGS 44 that he once enjoyed Villages and other de- 301 3,700 homes from his 5 acres on velopments. COLEMAN County Road 44A and “Absolutely, the 468 Powell Road. growth is very good Bailey says it’s time for business,” said Tri- to move. cia Bennett of Polly’s 301 501 SUSAN WALSH / AP SOUTHERN OAKS “’I’m going to sell Pantry Royal Tea Room 3,500 homes Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. speaks at the and Gift Shop on Main Conservative Political Action Conference annual meeting everything that I got. 470 I’ve had quite a few of- Street. 470 on Saturday in National Harbor, Md. fers, probably 10 or After living in Flori- SUMTERVILLE 12. I’m holding out for da 14 years ago, Ty Wil- LANDSTONE GOP targets Hillary, the right amount,” the liams returned to Wild- 471 8,000 homes widower said Thurs- wood seven months 301 day. Once his proper- SEE BOOM | A2 WHITNEY WILLARD / STAFF GRAPHIC ty is sold, he plans to courts women as move to Georgia and grow pecans. CPAC conference ends The retired railroad worker doesn’t plan STEVE PEOPLES of a Republican sum- to stick around for Associated Press mit that highlighted the big boom in Wild- OXON HILL, Md. acute challenges for a wood, which city offi- party that hasn’t won cials project will swell — She was not on the a presidential election from 7,160 residents to speaking program, in a decade. as many as 60,000 by but Hillary Rodham Former House 2035. Clinton had presence Speaker Newt Gin- Bailey has a selling at the nation’s larg- grich charged that price in mind, which est annual gathering he declined to public- of conservative ac- Clinton would be “a ly disclose, but he be- tivists on Saturday, prison guard for the lieves he is sitting on as high-profile Re- past” should she be- prime land. publicans launched come president. Ging- “People who have a dual effort to attack rich, a 2012 presiden- property here, the the prospective Dem- tial hopeful, said that property is going up,” ocratic presidential Republicans would Bailey said, thanks to candidate and im- recapture the White The Villages and other prove the GOP’s long- House if the next elec- developments moving BRETT LE BLANC / DAILY COMMERCIAL standing struggle with tion is framed as a to Wildwood. To prove A golf cart path that runs around Brownwood Paddock Square is closed due to construction women voters. fight between the past his point, Bailey point- in Wildwood on Friday. 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We are CASH 3 ...............................................2-0-9 and other new business- to benefit from The Vil- all from the same area, four to five miles wide Afternoon ..........................................4-9-9 es that have popped up. lages’ expansion. such as the new develop- and about 17 miles long,” PLAY 4 .............................................2-4-6-4 “Oh, my gosh. Yes, I see Jason McHugh, assis- ment from The Villages. he said. “Parkwood (com- Afternoon .......................................0-3-0-9 a big difference,” Wil- tant city manager, said McHugh said he want- munities) is about the liams said. “Wildwood Wildwood has been pre- ed to make it clear that it northern extent of our MARCH 7 is booming, but ‘boom- paring for “substantial is not because of The Vil- city, and the southern ex- FANTASY 5 ............................... 1-5-7-12-21 ing’ is an understate- growth” since 2005 by an- lages that the city is look- tent of our city is going MEGA MONEY ...................... 4-11-16-18-15 ment; the growth is very nexing land and updat- ing into redistricting. to be Landstone, which MEGA MILLIONS .............. 11-13-51-57-69-1 impressive. What I have ing comprehensive plans, “We have a number of goes all the way south seen since I have been due to growth in The Vil- projects in the city, and from the prison.” here is that The Villag- lages in Sumter County. we’re doing it because After the city completed es is taking over, but it’s “The Villages itself is we’re slated for substan- its comprehensive plans probably a good thing such an economic en- tial growth in the future, and looked at all of the THE NEWSPAPER OF CHOICE FOR LAKE AND SUMTER COUNTIES SINCE 1875 The Daily Commercial (ISSN 0896-1042) is published daily for because Florida is a tour- gine that it spurs devel- and we don’t just want development agreements $90.74 per year (plus Florida sales tax) by Halifax Media Group ist state for the elderly opment and there are a to have one single rep- on the books, McHugh at 212 East Main Street, Leesburg, Florida. Periodicals postage is paid at the USPO, Leesburg, FL. 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