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The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
Goethe Fire Caused Loss of Habitat, Yankeetown Council: No financial Aid
for IPD Calls topresentation last week at the regular meet-
Yankeetown
Reforestation Will Be Slow
Inglis police chief Steve Dixon made a
fund for the agency as a whole. Some of the
By Newscaster Correspondent Sally Price
ing of the Yankeetown council asking for financial help in covering police calls for service
areas are 100% lost and others that are more
With a drought, animals, birds
in Yankeetown that the Sheriff Dept. can’t cover. Dixon said his department can’t continue
natural will be left and hopefully reseed nat-
and reptiles have to moved around to find
to cover the cost of vehicles, manpower, and time as costs continue to go up. Dixon made
urally. Jennings said the reforestation pro-
water. With a fire such as the recent one in
a smiler plea in 2000-2001 that was turned down by the Yankeetown council. That proposal
gram has been impacted by budget cuts and
the Goethe Forest, gone are the habitats
would have put an additional two officers on the street that the two towns would share.
in the 2011-2012 planting season there are
of much of the wildlife. Some of our fire-
Dixon said he frequently fields complaints from Inglis citizens about the expense
no funds to address replanting. Jennings said
men told of gators and snakes fleeing the
to Inglis and the lack of support by Yankeetown.
seedlings for the state have been grown at
fire. Many hunters as well as citizens have
Yankeetown Mayor Dawn Clary said, “Yankeetown has always opted for using
400 acre Andrews Nursery SE of Chiefland
talked about Florida panther sightings. One
the Levy County Sheriff as their police protection provider and Yankeetown has been very
for 50 years with a capacity to grow 16 to 18
of these foresters raised here in Inglis told of
happy with the county’s service. The issue of joining the IPD was even put to vote years ago
million seedlings but right now there are 10
a real Florida panther he said he saw south
but failed to pass. The YT Council was firm in their opinion that the IPD needed to work out
to 12 million seedlings which you can find
of Lebanon Station, which are distinguished
the issue with the county. Though the council seemed to be of the opinion that the issue was
on line at the Florida Forest Service website.
by their long tail.
between Inglis and Levy County, they did vote to offer a letter of support for Inglis should
According to Jennings historically
Hundreds of acres will require
they approach the county.” (See Mayor Clary’s remarks, page 11)
from 1927 to 1969 his agency was called
some level of salvage efforts according to
Chief Dixon said although Inglis has an interlocal agreement with the Levy Coun-
Florida Forest Service. The name changed in
Steven Jennings, Bureau Chief of Forest
ty Sheriff’s dept. to cover them when asked, (because the county response time is sometimes
1969 to Florida Division of Forestry and just
Management in Tallahassee. Competitive
at least forty-five minutes) he has notified the Inglis Commission and the Levy Sheriff’s
recently on July 1, 2011 the name changed
bids are sought thru advertising, and the the
Dept. that his units will not be responding to Yankeetown unless the call is of a violent or life
back to Florida Forest Service.
money received back is deposited in a trust
threatening nature. He said the Inglis commission was in agreement with him adding that the
cost factor was “getting out of hand”.
SWAT team Uses Tear Gas to Force
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ManCounty Sheriff'sHomosassaa Home in
From Office was dispatched to domestic disturbance
The Citrus
Homosassa, shortly before 1:00 a.m., last Tuesday, July 12, after neighbors reported hear-
ing shots fired inside a double-wide mobile home. When deputies arrived at the home in
the Green Acres neighborhood, deputies found 72 year-old Roberta Schulz, the victim, who
had fled from the residence. She had not been shot, but had been physically battered by her
husband, Joachim "Jack" Schulz, 70, who was barricaded inside the family residence with
multiple firearms on the premises.
Members of the SWAT and crisis negotiation teams were called to the residence,
in an effort to establish contact with Schulz and bring the incident to a peaceful conclusion.
As the early morning hours wore on, Schulz remained barricaded inside the home, uncom-
municative with officers. In the interest of public safety, at least one nearby residence was
evacuated. Not long before 6:00 a.m., tear gas was released into the residence, and SWAT
members made entry. Mr. Schulz was transported by ambulance to an area hospital as a
result of exposure to the gas. His wife was transported to a different facility for further treat-
ment of her injuries. Felony charges against Schulz are pending his medical release, but no
arrest had been made as of July 18.
Forestry employees on S.R. 121 this past week were directing the building of landings for
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