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Community

FDOT Schedules

Public Hearing for

Citrus County Citizens

The Florida Department of Trans-

portation (FDOT) District Seven invites

the public to provide comments to FDOT

by participating in the Five-Year Tenta-

tive Work Program Public Hearing. The

Tentative Work Program for fiscal years

July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2021 cov-

ers preliminary engineering, right of way

acquisition, construction, and public trans-

portation projects for Citrus, Hernando,

Hillsborough, Pasco, and Pinellas Coun-

ties and includes Florida Turnpike Enter-

prise projects in these counties.

There are four ways you can participate:

Go to www.D7wpph.com between

Monday, October 26, 2015 and Friday,

October 30, 2015. You will be able to

see all of the presentations and maps,

submit comments, ask questions, and di-

rectly contact a department representative

if needed. If you do not have access to a

computer or the internet, you can use a

On October 4 the 21st-annual Rails to Trails Bike Ride on the Withlacoochee State Trail was held on Sunday, Oct. 4. According to the Citrus Coun-

computer at the local public libraries in the

ty Sheriff's Office, about 700 riders participated. Riders chose their own distance on the 46-mile long trail, up to the Century Ride of 100 miles.

The cost was $30 per rider.The Withlacoochee State Trail is a 46-mile stretch of railroad track that was converted to a paved recreational trail

five counties during the libraries regular

suitable for hiking, biking, and skating. Horseback riding is available on a separate trail along side the paved trail. The North end of the trail

operating hours.

is located in Citrus Springs, south of Dunnellon, and extends 46 miles to the south, ending at the trailhead parking lot at Highway 301 in Dade

3. FDOT representatives will be avail-

Four Dead

City, Florida. Trail users include the Withlacoochee Bicycle Riders, a group of cyclists that rides 3 or 4 times per week. Photo Courtesy CCSO.

able at the Lakes Region Library, locat-

Drug Raid Results in

ed at 1511 Druid Road in Inverness, on

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 from 4:00

In Inglis

6:00 pm to meet with you in person, an-

Four Arrests

swer any questions, and assist with web-

site access:

FDOT representatives are also

Shooting

phernalia, and violation of probation

From The Citrus County Sheriff Dept.

available during this week at the Florida

(bond $3,000); *Crystal Elaine Hill, 32,

Department of Transportation District

4 James St., Beverly Hills,

Beverly Hills drug raid nets four arrests

Seven offices, located at 11201 N. McKin-

charged with possession of

Early Tuesday morning, Sept.

ley Road in Tampa. You can schedule a

From Levy County Sheriff Dept.

methamphetamine, posses-

meeting at the district office by calling Lee

29, detectives with the Citrus County

Four people are dead at

Royal at (813) 975-6427.

sion of a controlled sub-

Sheriff s Office, Tactical Impact Unit

the hands of a man who was es-

Comments will be received thru

stance (Xanax), possession

served a search warrant at 4 James Street

tranged from his wife of almost

the website, at the location listed above,

Hill

of drug paraphernalia (com-

in Beverly Hills. Patrol units assisted in

36 years. The tragic incident took

or you can mail written comments to Deb-

bined bonds $5,000), and

the investigation, which resulted in four

place in Inglis, Florida about

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violation of probation (no

arrests on various drug charges. Detec-

6:00 pm on Thursday, Oct. 1st, Tyson

bond); *Christopher James

tives conducted a thorough search of the

Pigskin Predictors

when Hernando resident Walt

Ellison, 36, 1297 W. Stafford

home in the heavily populated neighbor-

Tyson, 57, shot his estranged wife's appar-

Is Back!

ent boyfriend, 53 year-old Otis Ray Bean, in

St., Hernando, charged with Callahan

hood. The search resulted in the collec-

the yard of his Inglis home, located at 132

possession of marijuana less

tion of methamphetamine, prescription

Fans Can Play

County Road 40, on the main street of the

than 20 grams and possession of para-

drugs, and several items of drug para-

town, then gunned-down 68 year-old good

phernalia (misdemeanor Notice to Ap-

phernalia.

Details on

Samaritan, "Buzz" Walter Scott Terhune, of

Arrests included: *Jason Pat-

pear); and *Georgia Sophia Trombley,

Inglis, who had heard a gunshot while he

rick Callahan, 37, 4 James St., Beverly

8-8-96, charged with possession of drug

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was at the bank across the street and entered

Hills, charged with possession of meth-

paraphernalia (misdemeanor Notice to

the yard in an attempt to de-escalate the al-

amphetamine, possession of drug para-

Appear).

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