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County News 2021
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Posted
April 19, 2021 04:00 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Thursday, April 15, the
Columbia County 5 met. On its agenda was an item
called "Olustee Park." There was not a scintilla of pre-meeting backup
information outlining the evening’s discussion.
As of Wednesday evening, April 14, the County
Manager claimed there was no material to go with
the agenda item "Olustee Park." The public was
left in the dark.
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Posted
April 12, 2021 10:00 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Following
the recent unveiling of construction to
expand Lake City Medical Center, the
hospital announced that it had added
another $1.6 million in technology in
the form of a da Vinci Xi Surgical Robot
by Intuitive Surgical.
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Posted
April 7, 2021 10:59 am
LAKE CITY, COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – The Olustee
Park - Monument controversy, now in the lap of
the Columbia County 5 (the County Commission),
had Columbia County’s newest commissioner, Robby
Hollingsworth, signing up to speak at Monday’s
City Council meeting. Why? Olustee – Second
thoughts.
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Posted
April 5, 2021 07:30 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Thursday's April 1
meeting of the Columbia County 5 put the issue
of Lake City's downtown Olustee Park and its
namesake monument square in the County
Commission's lap. They and thirteen folks from
in and out of town shared their views on who
should keep the Park and control the fate of the
Olustee monument.
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Posted
March 26, 2021 09:28 am
LAKE
CITY, COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – The North Florida Mega
Industrial Park needs a gas supply. Lake City
Utilities are the County gas experts. Yesterday,
the County and City sat down to discuss gas, a
necessity for industrial economic development.
They met in the County Economic Development
Office.
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Posted
March 18, 2021 11:55 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Thursday’s March 18,
2021, meeting of the County 5 was just about
wound out when at 2 hours and 29 minutes
Commissioner Ron Williams and County Attorney
Joel Foreman both brought up the ownership of
Olustee Park.
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Posted
March 18, 2021 11:01 am
LAKE CITY, COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL –
On Monday night, March 15, 2021, during
a 12th-hour walk-on by City Manager Joel
Helfenberger, he announced that a legal
opinion solicited by the City stated
that Columbia County owns Olustee Park.
The Park is home to a Confederate
Monument.
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Posted
February 26, 2021 06:45 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL –
Werner
Enterprises (NASDAQ: WERN), one of America’s
premier transportation and logistics providers,
announces the opening of its Lake City terminal.
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Pt I – The Fort White
Columbia County Connection
Posted
February 24, 2021 07:04 am
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Part II – Plus,
Serious Attorney Ethics Problem
Posted
February 24, 2021 07:04 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Part I ended with
Fort White Mayor Ronnie Frazier ignoring Lake
City’s offer to present a utility proposal to
the Town of Fort White. Town Councilman Bishop,
Columbia County Commissioner Ford’s
son-in-law, wanted to move full speed ahead
with the County.
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Posted
February 21, 2021 06:50 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL –
Chief Judge Mark E. Feagle was
unanimously elected to a second two-year
term by the Judges of the Third Judicial
Circuit on Friday.
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Posted
January 22, 2021 03:40 pm
OLUMBIA
COUNTY, FL – Last night, Lake
City's Vice Mayor / City Utility
Advisory Committee Chair, Chris Greene,
made a surprise visit to the County 5.
Despite Mr. Greene's announced
closed-mindedness, the County agreed to
join Councilman Sampson's reconstituted
City Utility Advisory Committee.
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Posted
January 20, 2021 02:25 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – As the curtain drew
down on yesterday's legislative delegation
meeting, the environment, a bellwether issue for
Florida, was brought front and center by
environmentalist and springs protector Merrillee
Malwitz-Jipson. Strikingly, she let everybody
know that bottling Florida's spring water is
also about the bottles.
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Posted
January 18, 2021 06:07 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Representative Chuck
Brannan (R-Macclenny) and Senator Jennifer
Bradley (R-Flemming Island) will be on-hand in
Columbia County tomorrow afternoon at the annual
legislative delegation hearing.
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Posted
December 29, 2020 11:58 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Last Tuesday,
Columbia County's Economic Development Advisory
Board, after only 11 minutes and six seconds of
discussion about the Niagara Bottling Project,
moved to "not to enter into a contract with the
company." The decision by the EDAB is advisory
only.
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