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Deborah Russell - Editor
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Wednesday January 28, 2015
Inglis, FL 34449
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Permit No. 14
Sally Price - Correspondent
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Community
Cracker Days 2015
Return to Yesteryear
Step back into late 1800's pioneer
and frontier Florida and come to Cracker
Days at Rainbow Springs State Park on
US 41 about 2 miles north of Dunnellon,
Florida. FORS (the Friends of Rainbow
Springs State Park), sponsors this educa-
tional, family friendly event which will
be held Saturday and Sunday, February
21st and 22nd from 9 am to 4 pm each
day. Park admission is $2.00 per person
with children 5 and under admitted free.
Your visit this year will bring you
among quilters, beekeeper, wood carv-
ers, weavers, authors, spinners, pine
needle and gourd crafters, a metal work-
er and a paper maker, a cooper, a potter
and beekeepers with a live demonstra-
tion hive.
Comedy Performance
scheduled in February
Comedian Rene' Bray will be
performing on Fri., February 6, 7:00 pm,
Three Sisters Springs' (Crystal River) current conditions still unsuitable for in-water recreation. Three Sisters Springs closure remains in ef-
at the Central Ridge Community Cen-
Double-shooting tragedy
fect. See story below. FWC photo by Karen Parker
ter, located at 77 Civic Circle in Beverly
Three Sisters
Hills, FL. Her unique style is guaranteed
to create a fun evening! Tickets are $5 and
takes life of suspect
available at Parks & Recreation office at
Springs In-Water
2804 W. Marc Knighton Ct in Lecanto, or
call 352-527-7540.
From The Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
Access Closed
Wildlife Park to Start
window of the home, striking Kovacs, who
was first taken to Citrus Memorial Hospital
Excersise Classes
A shooting incident in Inverness,
in Inverness, then to Ocala Regional Medi-
late Thursday evening, Jan. 22, resulted in
The Florida Department of Environ-
cal Center in Ocala, where she was to un-
From the USFWS
the shooting suspect likely taking his own
mental Protection's Ellie Schiller Ho-
dergo surgery.
life in Hernando County a few hours later,
mosassa Springs Wildlife State Park is
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
When deputies arrived at the N.
around 2:41 am Fri. morning, Jan. 23.
pleased to once again offer an 6-week
staff at Crystal River National Wildlife Ref-
Croft Ave. residence, Lloyd had already left
Deputies with the Citrus County
exercise workshop which started Tues-
uge accessed the Three Sisters Springs on
the scene and was headed in the direction of
Sheriff s Office (CCSO) were called to Cit-
day, January 20 and runs on Tuesdays
Monday morning as part of daily monitoring
Hernando County. Deputies alerted the Her-
rus Memorial Hospital in Inverness at 10:00
through February 24, 2015. Classes will
of manatee activity and conditions of the
nando County Sheriff s Office (HCSO), and
pm Thursday, due to a woman having been
be held in the Florida Room at the Ellie
springs.
at 2:41 am, HCSO deputies located a similar
shot. Witnesses told deputies, that earlier in
Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife
At 7:00am, manatee numbers ex-
vehicle, a white SUV, at the 7-Eleven con-
the evening, the victim, 19 year-old Christi-
State Park's Visitor Center, and will start
ceeded 250 individuals in the interior of
venience store located at Berkeley Manor
na Kovacs of Dunnellon, had been involved
promptly at 2 p.m., lasting 1 hour.
the springs. Water visibility in the springs
Blvd. and Commercial Way (U.S. Hwy. 19)
in an altercation with Jeffrey Michael Lloyd,
was extremely poor at nearly zero in-water
in Spring Hill.
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visibility. Although these conditions pre-
As deputies were approaching the
in Citrus County), at a home located at 1809
vented an accurate count, a minimum of 270
SUV, a shot was fired from within the ve-
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N. Croft Ave. in Inverness. Witnesses said
manatees using the interior of the springs
hicle. In response, one deputy returned fire.
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that Ms. Kovacs was Mr. Lloyd's former
were counted by 8:30 AM, suggesting that
Dispatchers were advised that "shots were
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girlfriend, that Lloyd told Kovacs (who was
nearly 300 manatees were using the springs
fired." The man, later identified as Lloyd,
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with a friend) to leave the residence, then
by then. For the next three days, weather
was transported to a local hospital by Her-
the Food Ranch Service Desk - 25
pulled a gun on her. Witnesses said Kovacs
conditions are expected to bring air tempera-
nando County Fire Rescue with a gunshot
words/$12. New deadline: Monday 12
left the residence, but returned to the house
tures in the low 40s, and dropping as low
wound. He later died at the hospital. Initial
noon at the Inglis Food Ranch service Desk.
with additional friends. According to the
as 37 by Wednesday. Low temperatures are
reports indicate that the gunshot wound was
Cash or Check.
CCSO, Lloyd allegedly fired shots through a
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