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Air This run is honoring the military victims killedContinued from page 1 this past

Commando March - in the helicopter crash

Remembering the Past

week. There are four relay teams with 2 or 3 members (11 Ruckers for 11 men killed) with

each team alternating 12 mile runs. Each of the eleven runners carried a folded American

flag in their backpack with the name of one of the eleven who died on it. (the one s not

named yet held a blank label until the names are released.) From Hulbert Field running

across the Barge Canal bridge is Staff Sgt. Shane Rodriquez and carrying the flags crossing

Hwy 40 in Inglis is Staff Sgt. Arturo Venegas. Photo/story by Sally Price.

"What's Coming" to Citrus County"

Citrus County staff members often receive questions in regard to new construction

or businesses coming to the county. This is an update on the newly received permit requests

and/or issued permits for large commercial projects received by the Planning & Develop-

ment Department:

D & D ENTERPRISES - permit application for 4,000 sq. ft. storage building to service an

existing furniture store at 2157 N. Lecanto Hwy.

GOOD COUNSEL CAMP - permit application to reconstruct a 5,497 sq. ft. assembly hall

destroyed by fire at 8888 E. Gobbler Dr. in Floral City.

ASPEN DENTAL OFFICE - permit application for 3,750 sq ft shell building for a future

Aspen Dental Office at the Citrus Center Shopping Plaza between McDonalds and a bank

adjacent to State Rd. 44 in Inverness.

YMCA - site development permit application to allow clearing, grading, parking, stormwa-

ter, water/sewer, landscaping and irrigation at proposed site on County Rd. 486 in Lecanto.

Citrus/Levy History now on thenewscaster1.com

In the early morning, March 13, 1993 "The Storm of the Century" rolled into the Nature Coast

flooding places that many people had never seen flooded. The lower west end of Yankeetown

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received 48 inches of water from the Gulf in 17 minutes catching people totally off guard and

in the dark. This photo is in the upper end of Yankeetown on the corner of Riverside Drive

and Jeffrey Lane. Rescued people were brought up 56 St by boat, docking at the Yankeetown

48 Hwy. 19 S. at Hickory Island

Post Office that sits high and dry. They were evacuated on school buses. There were many

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scary stories but no deaths locally. People with stilt homes in the lower end of Yankeetown

were suddenly popular and many opened their homes to those flooded. Power was out for an

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extended time and the temperature dropped in the 20's to compound the problems. This once

in a hundred year storm spread up the whole west coat of Florida and even on the eastern

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seaboard causing major damage in it's path. Photo story by Sally Price

Lawsuit - Continued incident in 1a four page typed letter to Chief Dixon and just

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ters subsequently replied to the

before the March 15 Inglis municipal election Peters ran the ad entitled "Inglis passed the

crossroads." This can be read online at http://newscasterarchives.com/3-9-11/Newspg3.php.

Chief Dixon interpreted portions of the ad and March 10th, 2011 went to Peters home with

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two other officers to arrest Peters for violating a law entitled "Corruption by threat to harm

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Peters was released on his own recognizance after the judge expressed skepticism

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Peters said he suffered harm, humiliation, embarrassment, inconvenience, restraint of lib-

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erty, loss of employment and severe harm to his reputation, as well as out of pocket expenses

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