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Wednesday August 15, 2012
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Permit No. 14
Sally Price - Correspondent
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Squawk Box
State Parks An
Affordable Treasure
With Doug Johnston
We returned from
a trip to West Virginia last
Sunday evening. We stay
in “Kathie’s House” on the
Maryland/West
Virginia
border 20 miles northeast of
Morgantown, W.Va.
This year we put an additional
700 miles on our car taking some back-
roads in W. Va. We targeted 12 covered
bridges we were interested in seeing.
Along the way we saw some incredible
scenery and stumbled upon a State Park
we didn t know existed near Buckhannon,
W. Va.
Audra State Park is well off the
beaten path and I almost gave up trying to
find it. I drove on a narrow two lane road
through beautiful but very remote coun-
try for what seemed an eternity. Just be-
fore we were about to turn back, (turning
around on those kind of roads is a trick in
A newly constructed trail fulfills a component of the planned expansion of the Cross Florida Greenway trails near Inglis as proposed in the
itself), we spotted a group of children sit-
state’s trail management plan. Newscaster Photo by Sally Price
2nd Arrest for Progress Energy "Gives A Little
ting on rocks at the top of a waterfall. We
then saw the park entrance.
This jewel is in the middle of
man on exposure
a beautiful mountain forest with thick,
Ground" For New Trail
lush vegetation and the waterfalls are
charges
awesome. It was so pretty that I pulled
a pair of shorts out of the trunk of our
By Newscaster Correspondent
top of the one trail to the other, connecting
car, changed at the nearby bathhouse and
Sally Price
the two at the same 45 foot level as the Hwy
Police Seeking Additional Victims
jumped into the clear, emerald green wa-
19 bridge.
There is a new addition in Inglis
ter below the falls. It was invigorating and
From Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
According to Jennifer Diaz, Exter-
to the Cross Florida Greenways Withla-
quite refreshing. I couldn’t convince Ka-
Brian Main, 24, 795 N. Garden-
nal Communications Mgr. Fl Parks Service,
coochee Bay Trail. The new multi-use path
thie or her Mom to join me. They opted to
view Ter., Crystal River, was
DEP, “the path is made possible as Progress
is not ready for the grand opening but it’s
sit on the bank in the shade of Poplar and
arrested at his residence by
Energy needed an easement from the state
barriers have been removed and the path is
Sycamore trees and just relax.
the Citrus County Sheriff’s
for staging areas for their proposed nuclear
open. One section starts at the Felburn Park
State Parks and Trails are a trea-
Office, Aug. 7, on a warrant
power plant expansion. They are in the pro-
under the barge canal bridge and goes east
sure. We have 171 State Park properties
by the State Attorney s Office
cess of applying for the necessary permits
crossing over the plug between Phil’s Lake
in Florida and last year almost 25 million
for three counts of exposure
and needed to have conservation easements
and the canal and up onto the spoil banks.
people visited them, according to the Flor-
of sexual organs (bond was
in place as part of their application package.
The view is unique from up high as op-
Main
ida Park Service. Spending a day at many
set at $3,000). According to
The proposed staging area is on the Cross
posed to the west end that meanders along
Florida State Parks costs as little as $5.00
the sheriff s office, these charges stem from
Florida Greenway property. In return, as
at ground level. The path ends at the upper
a carload and there are diverse sights and
statements made by two women who filed
payment, the state asked Progress Energy
Withlacoochee River with a great view of
recreational opportunities at those parks,
complaints after they learned about Main’s
to design and construct a trail on the Cross
the intersection of the dissected river where
including fishing, swimming, boating,
arrest on similar charges on July 26.
Florida Greenway. In order to do that an
it flows into the canal. At this point you can
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A 21 year-old Crystal River woman
escrow agreement needed to be in place.
see the “great wall of Inglis” that blocks off
reported that on April 9, she was driving east
Progress Energy deposited the payment for
the lower Withlacoochee across the canal.
Primary Election
on Dunnellon Rd. when Main passed her in
easement into the escrow account and used
The second section is on Inglis Is-
his dark blue 2000 Ford Explorer and imme-
those funds to design and construct the trail
land accessed at the main spillway (dam)
Results
diately slowed down, causing her to pass his
project. The newly constructed trail fulfills a
and it meanders thru the shaded woods and
vehicle and see him exposing and fondling
thenewscaster.com
component of the planned expansion of the
ascends up on the spoil banks to end at the
his private area.
Cross Florida Greenway trails as proposed
same point opposite the one coming east
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The second complaint was made
in the state’s trail management plan. The
fromFelburn Park. According to officials,
future plans are for a bridge to span from the
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