A4 + PLUS >> Cooper’s the culprit in blaze, but 2 classic Chevys survive, Story below FORT WHITE COLUMBIA New QB Tigers set out to debut for Boot Hill See Page 1B See Page 1B WEEKEND EDITION FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 & 5, 2019 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM COPS SAY: Kids will survive Friday National Night Out The Lake City Police Department is excited to murder return National Night Out tonight from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. This community event pro- vides a safe and fun environ- ment for children of all ages. attempt Various law enforcement agencies will be present, along with food and games. The event will be held at the Public Safety Building park- by mom ing lot, 225 NW Main Blvd. 2A CHS play COURTESY OCALA POLICE DEPARTMENT Columbia High School’s See Page 2A for the latest on a Lake City woman who police say purposely rammed a tree in Ocala after telling her children to take off thespians are putting on an their seat belts. She will face four counts of attempted murder once she’s out of the hospital. The kids, meanwhile, have been stabilized. encore performance of “Who Poisoned His Meatball?” Friday in the Norman L. Choice Performing Arts Center on the campus of COUNTY COMMISSION CHS at 7p.m. Tickets are only $5 at the door. There won’t be dinner, but culinary will sell concessions. Mitigation suit Theater The High Springs Playhouse’s production off and running of “A Party to Murder,” by Marcia Kash and Douglas E. Deal was ‘shady’ from over mineral rights. Hughes and directed by Katy Without the mitigation Lasiter, opens tonight and the outset, says Witt. credits, several high-profile will run Fridays, Saturdays county projects will become and Sundays throughout By CARL MCKINNEY significantly more expensive [email protected] October. Go to highspring- Photos by MICHAEL PHILIPS/LCR — including the development splayhouse.com or call 386- Snowden and one of his beauties. BELOW: The guilty 2008 Cooper. of Bell Road into an economic 454-3525 for ticket informa- The county is moving to development corridor. tion. file a lawsuit against Bayfield The best Mitigation, the land bank outcome is Friday–Saturday Cooper’s the culprit in blaze, whose existing legal dispute for Bayfield with a phosphate mining to win the CHS class of ’74 but 2 classic Chevys survive company has caught taxpay- fight with Columbia High School’s ers in the crossfire. White 45th class reunion will be held By MICHAEL PHILIPS The county has about $1 Springs today and Saturday. Tonight, [email protected] million invested into Bayfield Witt Chemicals, there will be an informal gath- At about 10:30 that morning, in the form of mitigation cred- County ering at Halpatter’s at 6 p.m. Wendell Snowden was outside his its -- regulatory tokens that Attorney Joel Foreman told On Saturday at the American home in Wellborn talking on his can be used to satisfy require- commissioners Thursday Legion from 7 p.m. until mid- phone. At 10:48 he noticed smoke ments on developing wetlands. night, but that case has night, there will be dinner coming from a detached garage, State and federal regulators stalled out and appears to be and music. The price is $25 about 100 feet from his home. He have frozen all of Bayfield’s going nowhere. for singles and $50 a couple. didn’t have to time to say goodbye credits pending a civil case “There’s a million dollars on For more information, please to the person on the other end, as between the land bank and White Springs Chemicals continued on 2A WEEKEND continued on 2A BLAZE continued on 3A COUNTY Vol. 144, No. 146 Obituaries . 3A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER (386) 752-1293 Opinion . 4A TV guide . 2B FAITH AND VALUES SUBSCRIBE TO THE REPORTER: 93 67 Advice & Comics . 3-4B In His Image, 5A Voice: 755-5445 Mostly sunny, 2A Classified . 5B Fax: 752-9400 GW HUNTER 1130 WEST US 90 386-752-5890 VISIT YOUR LOCAL CHEVRON STATION 2A FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2019 LOCAL LAKE CITY REPORTER MOTHER FACES CHARGES QUICK HITS Scripture of the Day “Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch Kids will survive, say cops the mountains, and they shall smoke.” — Psalm 144:5 (KJV) By MICHAEL PHILIPS ing. Once she is released, restraint. Williams, on the Avenue address given in [email protected] she will be transferred to other hand, had a seat belt the affidavit yesterday at Alachua County jail and burn on the left side of her about 1 p.m. Though the Thought for Today The four children of returned to Marion County neck. front porch lights were on, Just because something doesn’t do what you a Lake City woman who to face the charges. According to the girl, there was no sign of anyone planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. police say purposely drove One of Williams’ daugh- her brother asked his mom inside. Caged chickens in — Thomas A. Edison, 1847-1931, U.S. inventor her minivan into a palm tree ters said her mother told to slow down prior to the the backyard appeared to on Wednesday in Ocala are her and her siblings to crash, only to be told to have not been fed yet that in stable condition, while, as remove their shut up. day. A neighbor, who knows of press time, Ocala police seat belts, She told them Williams Williams only as “Red,” said Winning Lottery Numbers were waiting for the woman saying, told a the family mostly kept to Pick 3: (Wednesday p.m.) 1-2-5 herself to recover enough “Lord Jesus, to take their responding themselves. Pick 4: (Wednesday p.m.) 5-0-6-7 to take her in for question- save me,” seat belts off investiga- When the responding Fantasy 5: (Wednesday) 2-7-12-15-35 ing. according to tor that her officer questioned Williams Calicia L. Williams, 36, the report. before she husband about the crash, she faces four counts of attempt- The girl also had “put claimed that she was being See an error? ed murder, after officers said that the rammed a tree, a hex and followed and was trying to The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news interviewed several people, mother told according to caused her read license plates when items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, including her children, who them that to crash.” she veered across the road please call the editor. Corrections and clarifications will range in age from six to 13 the “devil Ocala Police. According and struck a curb. When run in this space. Thanks for reading. and were seriously injured couldn’t to the public she looked up, she saw the in the crash, according to hurt them.” “He only hurts information officer of the palm tree. Submissions an affidavit from the Ocala bad people. You have the OPD, Corie Byrd, the police According to another The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and caption Police Department. light of Jesus in you, and haven’t yet located her hus- officer who responded to information to run at the discretion of the editor. If you Williams was still at UF only Jesus can cure us,” the band. She also told the scene of the crash, Williams would like to see your organization in the newspaper, send Health Shands Hospital in daughter quoted her moth- Reporter that the children spontaneously told him that the picture and information to Robert Bridges at rbridges@ Gainesville last night after er as saying. According were in stable condition. she had marijuana in her lakecityreporter.com. OPD detectives detained to the report, none of the The Lake City Reporter system, according to the her at 2:47 yesterday morn- children were wearing a went to the NW Oakland report. Lake City Reporter HOW TO REACH US BUSINESS ........... 754-0419 ment or by purchasing mit- But the deal went through, said. “They sold for double Main number ....... (386) 752-1293 Fax number ............ 752-9400 CIRCULATION COUNTY igation credits from a mit- and the county should have what we paid for them. 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