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On Saturday, March 19, 2016, the Levy County Historical Society will present the

third of three presentations about the invasion of

the Civil War into Levy County. Anyone with an

interest in the history and heritage of Levy County

is invited to join us at this free event to learn more

Special to The Newscaster by Kaloian Nedeltchev, student writer

about this time in our history.

Ever since the introduction of Chromebooks to our YTS

The third presentation in the series, "THE

campus, we've progressed a lot as students, and as a school.

SKIRMISH AT STATION NO. 4" sets forth the events that occurred early on the morning

Many in-school groups, as well as individual students,

of February 13, 1865, between Union and Confederate soldiers in the fields on the main-

have made a lot of progress because of the simplicity and mobility

land near one of the station stops on the Florida Railroad. Although both sides fought a

of the small machines. They are simple enough for everyone to

valiant battle, you will have to join us on Saturday, March 19, 2016, to hear Bob Wooley,

use, as well as, small enough to carry around easily.

historian, reenactor, and member of the Gainesville Civil War Roundtable of North Flori-

Many in school groups use the Chromebooks on a daily

da, tell us about the event.

All presentations start at 2:00 PM and will be held at the conference center of the

* The Health Opportunities Through Physical Education group use Chromebooks every

Cedar Key RV Resort, 11980 SW Shiloh Road, Sumner (12 miles west of Otter Creek, just

day during last period to complete online classes and assignments.

north of the Marathon Gas Station on SR 24). Ample parking available across the Shiloh

* The Student Government group uses them often to organize events that they host as

Road from the RV resort and handicap parking behind the conference center.

well as meetings. For example, two female representatives from Student Government are

For more information, www.levycountyhistoricalsociety.com or call Lindon

currently using them to organize the Eighth Grade End of the Year Dance. These ladies use

Lindsey at (352) 493-4066 or Toni Collins at (352) 490-5636.

these devices to communicate with their committee, share documents, collaborate on docu-

Sheriff commends Dep. Rogers for

ments, design invitations, menus, and requirements.

* Three students on campus are

makingRogers with the Levy County Sheriff's Office was quite busy on Feb.

Inglis "safer place to live"

also working on designing two

different t-shirts through Google

Drawings. These students are work-

ing closely with Ms. Wade as she

19, when he made four arrests that wrapped up two separate investigations and made ad-

has already created three t-shirt

ditional drug arrests, as well.

designs through this program and

The first arrest made by Dep. Rogers was that of Reinhard Bailey, 60, who was

our school has benefitted from the

charged with possession of methamphetamine (bond $10,000). This investigation began

on Nov. 4, 2015, when a clerk at the Inglis Dollar General store contacted Rogers about a

small baggie a customer had left near the check-out counter she suspected might contain

Chromebooks for extra curricular

narcotics. Rogers confirmed that the bag contained methamphetamine. During the inves-

activities, but we use them to make,

tigation, which included viewing security footage of the incident, Dep. Rogers identified

interact, and turn in class assign-

Bailey as the person who'd left the drugs in the store, and on Feb. 19, Dep. Rogers located

ments (Ex. Essays). With the use of

Bailer and placed him under arrest.

Students Raven Langenburg Trina Ruttinger

our Google Classrooms our instruc-

Later during his same shift, Deputy Rogers responded to the Kangaroo Express

and Kaloian Nedeltchev

tors can create assignments that we

gas station in Inglis to assist in an ongoing burglary investigation, working with Lt. D.

can complete from anywhere. In the Google Docs application we can type the assignment

Dykstra of the Criminal Investigations Division, Sergeant M. Narayan, Crime Scene In-

from anywhere, share it with our teachers, and there's no chance of losing it or forgetting it

vestigator Z. Richburg and Deputy R. Hinote.

somewhere. With the auto save feature, we also have no chance of losing our progress! As

In this incident, deputies were contacted by a witness about a Buick Rendezvous

an 8th grader, we have also made use of the Google Slide application when our entire class

SUV at the station's gas pumps that had a ceiling fan in the back that had been stolen from

collaborated to create one single power point that was presented to our local veterans at our

a SE 193rd Place, Inglis residence.

Veteran's Day program.

The three occupants of the SUV were detained: Vincent L. Baker, 19, 10043 W.

Teachers are also using these Chromebooks during Professional Development

Dublin St., Crystal River; Wayne Joseph Drake (the owner of the SUV who was sitting in

sessions as a means of submitting their own feedback to one another. The staff at YTS uti-

the front passenger seat), 49, 12307 W. Edwards Ct., Inglis; and Robyn L. Johnson (the

lizes a Google Classroom so they can communicate more efficiently, collaborate with ease,

driver of the SUV), 26, 6700 SE C.R. 40 West, Yankeetown.

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and engage the short attention spans of us students.

Baker told deputies that he and Johnson had entered the structure belonging to the

5093 S. Orwell Pt., Homosassa, Florida 34446Yankeetown School campus has

Overall, the introduction of Chromebooks to our

victim and had taken the items listed in the original report, but he had entered through an

made our tasks much easier to accomplish and we are thankful to be a Google Education

open door and had not kicked-in the door as the initial report had stated. He said that the

Phone: (352) 489-4588 Fax: (727) 362-4788

ceiling fan and baseball bat taken in the burglary were in the SUV, and a record player and

Email, Tom Russell, Publisher: thenewscaster1@gmail.com Hometown News for the Nature Coasta home in the Woodpecker Ridge subdivision. The SUV was searched

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didates (Tom Brennan, Michael W Gibson, Ann Morin, Dale A Nichols, James C Williams she was advised of her fingerprints being on the scene of the burglary, she said she'd re-

and Michael Drew White) have confirmed attendance to both forums. Please find time in ceived a phone call from Baker and a man known as "AK," the night of the burglary, asking

your busy schedule to attend at least one of these forums, and bring your questions! For her to meet them at the property, and she had gone there to find that the burglary was in

more information, please call Ruth at 352-447-0236.

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