Happy Easter, Mom: Watson wins Masters in playoff /B1 MONDAY CITRUS COUNTY TODAY & Tuesday morning HIGH Partly cloudy. West 82 winds 5 to 10 mph. LOW Mostly clear tonight. 52 PAGE A4 www.chronicleonline.com APRIL 9, 2012 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community 50¢ VOLUME 117 ISSUE 246 MAY 9, 1918 - APRIL 7, 2012 NEWS BRIEFS Mall’s Brandywine Mike Wallace Terrace closed new this week The contractor upgrad- ing County Road 486 will dies at age 93 GM reconstruct Brandywine Terrace between Norvell Bryant Highway and Sil- FRAZIER MOORE day night at a care facility in New talks of ver Hill Lane beginning AP Television Writer Canaan, Conn., where he had lived in Monday. recent years, CBS spokesman Kevin The reconstruction will NEW YORK — Mike Wallace did- Tedesco said. He was 93. require the total closure n’t interview people. He interrogated Until he was slowed by heart sur- plans of Brandywine Terrace for them. He cross-examined them. gery as he neared his 90th birthday in about one week. Sometimes he eviscerated them. 2008, Wallace continued making NANCY KENNEDY Roadside message His reputation was so fearsome news, doing “60 Minutes” interviews AND MIKE WRIGHT boards will advise the that it was often said the scariest with such subjects as Jack Kevorkian Staff Writers traveling public about the words in the English language were and Roger Clemens. He had prom- Associated Press closure. Detour signs will “Mike Wallace is here to see you.” ised to still do occasional reports Television news journalist Mike Wal- Wallace, whose pitiless, prosecuto- CRYSTAL RIVER — For direct traffic to use North when he announced his retirement lace is pictured in 2008. Wallace, rial style transformed television jour- famed for his tough interviews on “60 the past 21 years, Frances Pinecone Avenue. as a correspondent in 2006. nalism and made “60 Minutes” Minutes,” died Saturday, April 7. He and Ed Marquez have compulsively watchable, died Satur- See WALLACE /Page A9 was 93. owned Ed’s Watch and Jew- INSIDE elry Repair inside Sears at the Crystal River Mall. IN THE NATION: When they learned Sears was closing, they were shocked. They started looking for someplace new to move their business, but decided to stay at the mall. On May 18, Ed’s Watch and Jewelry Re- pair will open in the space for- merly occu- Brett Low pied by Crystal River Claire’s. Mall general Easter service Despite manager. Christians wake before the exodus dawn to attend annual of retail businesses away event./Page A14 from the mall in recent years, Frances Marquez said LOCAL EFFORTS: they believe the mall is still Give blood important to the community. Find out where the “People still come here LifeSouth and walk around,” she said. Bloodmobile “Our regular customers will will be seek us out, and this gives parked for DAVE SIGLER/Chronicle us more visibility for new donations Low lake waters are causing some boating frustrations. The floating dock at the lake on State Road 44 east is rest- customers.” during ing on the dry land and with low water levels people launching boats are forced to go off the edge of the pavement Chuck McSweeney, store upcoming to launch their boats. manager of Belk, one of the weeks./Page A7 now-three mall anchor stores, said it’s been scary Get food watching businesses close Area groups offer Boaters’ beef with local ramps and move away, but now low-cost food options there’s a new owner, Mike and free meals each What happens next — when Kohen of Crystal River Mall week./Page A4 Low water levels reveal design limits; boaters start to pull the trailer out Reality Management Inc., of of the water, the rear axle hits the Little Neck, N.Y., he’s got ONLINE POLL: edge of the cement ramp and renewed hope the tide has Your choice? official: ‘you can only go out so far’ causes damage. turned. That doesn’t happen when the “Now that someone has Should state transporta- water is high. ownership we’re seeing tion officials NANCY KENNEDY Dave Miller, a longtime recre- Brock said he’s not unsympa- things get done,” he said. resurrect Staff Writer ational boater from Inverness. plans to thetic to boaters — he’s a boater “We’ve had a lot of issues “My biggest beefs are with the himself. with roof leaks, and that’s extend the Local boaters have a love-hate ramp at Hernando and the one on “I don’t think it’s so much a prob- being addressed. We’re see- Suncoast relationship with area lakes’ boat (State Road) 44,” he said. “It all lem with the ramps as it is with the ing changes.” Parkway ramps. goes back to the design of the ramp. lake levels, and there’s nothing we The mall, which opened through Citrus County? When the water is high, they They built it when the water was can do about that,” he said. in 1990, has come on hard A. Yes. It’s an integral don’t complain, said Larry Brock, component to Florida’s high.” He said the county makes regu- times in recent years. Wells Citrus County assistant public long-term highway The problem is how the ramps lar weekly safety inspections and Fargo Bank of Minnesota in works director. network. drop off at the end. When boaters has a line item in the budget for 2011 sued to foreclose on a But when the water levels go B. No. It’s just not try to put their boats back onto a regular maintenance. Anything be- $16.3 million mortgage down, as they are now, boaters needed. trailer after a day in the water, as yond that would require a capital owed by former owner aren’t happy. C. Yes, and do it now to they ride up onto the trailer and improvement project. Simon Property Inc. help stimulate the econ- “The ramps should’ve been de- gun the engine, it digs up the rock “We come along and put material At the bank’s request, the omy with jobs. signed for extreme low water and and sand in the shallow water at back in (when boaters power load), court appointed Boxer Re- D. No. Not until the extreme high water, like at Fort Is- the end of the ramp. ality of Dallas, Texas, as economy improves, land beach in Crystal River,” said That’s called power loading. See RAMPS/ Page A7 anyway. See MALL/ Page A2 To vote, visit www. chronicleonline.com. Click on the word “Opin- ion” in the menu to see the poll. Vets helping vets: Club rolls up to house, rolls on the paint Results will appear next Monday. Find last NANCY KENNEDY stationed in Colorado. week’s online poll Staff Writer It was then Thompson results./Page A4 learned how Maltman had BEVERLY HILLS — been getting letters from his COMING UP Early Saturday, more than a homeowner’s association TOMORROW: dozen members of the local threatening to sue him if he Rolling Thunder didn’t get his house Long-timer chapter met to give a painted. Margaret Butts has seen dying fellow veteran However, Malt- much growth since a helping hand. man, who lives on a moving in a home with a With paintbrushes fixed income, can’t view of downtown and rollers, they afford to hire some- Inverness during the made light work of one to paint it and is 1960s./Monday giving the house unable to do it him- owned by Jerry Malt- INDEX self. He said he felt man a much-needed Jerry bombarded and Comics ....................B6 coat of paint, includ- Maltman frustrated, trying to Crossword ................B5 ing a bright red front veteran and get help. Editorial..................A12 door. homeowner. But Saturday he Entertainment ..........B4 Maltman, 66, is was all smiles as he Horoscope ................B4 dying of an incurable sat in his garage. Lottery Numbers ......B3 leukemia. He explained, “In the Lottery Payouts ........B4 Ray Thompson, a mem- middle of the welcome- Movies ......................B6 ber of Rolling Thunder, said home party, a member of Obituaries ................A6 he met Maltman when the TV Listings................B5 Rolling Thunder squatted Classifieds ................B7 group came to the welcome- next to my wheelchair and home celebration in Febru- said, ‘You look like you ary for Maltman’s Army son, could use your house NANCY KENNEDY/Chronicle Scott Maltman, who was re- painted.’ I said, ‘I sure More than a dozen members of the local Rolling Thunder chapter met Saturday to help dying turning from a tour in fellow veteran Jerry Maltman by painting his house. Maltman had been unable to comply Afghanistan. He’s currently See VETS/ Page A7 with letters from his homeowners’ association telling him he needed to paint. A2 MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2012 CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE DAVE SIGLER/Chronicle Sue and Don Mayo talk to Brett Low, general manager Crystal River Mall, and Chuck McSweeney, Belk store manager, during the festivities about improvements they would like to see. Don Mayo provided the sculptures that have been on display at the mall. Frances Marquez and her family business had occupied the Ed’s Watch and Jewelry Repair since the Sears Store opened at the mall. With Sears closing, Eds’ shop will be found in the space formerly occupied by Claire’s. looking for local restaura- coming back, they’ll notice teurs to do something with it’s looking better,” he said. MALL the former Gabby’s restau- “It’s getting our name out Continued from Page A1 rant space. there and getting positive “This is a big fishing area, press.” receiver of the mall.