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The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
Lawsuit - Continued from page 1
Squawk Box
- Continued from page 1
“We will continue to pursue our lawful rights to develop our property under the
halls and wrote on the same black boards. This is a school where a teacher’s own children
existing zoning code and comprehensive plan as outlined in our site development applications
graduated, went off to college and came back to teach along side their parents at YTS. Leav-
submitted in May of 2006. In the meantime, it is our sincere hope that the elected officials
ing a teaching job at YTS is rare. Office workers, teachers and support employees have all
of Yankeetown will see fit to enter into some kind of meaningful dialogue that will result
watched as young ones they helped educate have had their offspring come up through the
in a reasonable settlement of our differences and forgo the need to litigate this matter any
grades their parents did.
further in the courts. Our preference would be to enter into “global settlement” discussions
According to the school website many changes have taken place in this na-
with a Yankeetown representative that has the authority to bind the town to a negotiated
tive field stone school that was built in 1936. It replaced 2 smaller schools in Inglis and
settlement. The settlement would encompass all of the issues/concerns related to our proposed
Yankeetown. There was no air conditioning and no screens on the windows when it was
development.” Editor's Note: See Yankeetown mayor's comments on page 11.
finished. Today all but the gym is air conditioned. The school originally educated grades 1
Sea Cadetdorothy.pernu@hma.comDown
Commander Stepping
thru 12 in 7 rooms. In 1951 grades 7 thru 12 were transported to Dunnellon with grades 1
thru 6 staying at YTS. In 1956 grades 7 and 8 were brought back to YTS and kindergarten
was started. The cafeteria was originally in a tin building behind the school and eventually
mullallyb@gmail.com
It has been my personal pleasure to have been the Commanding Officer of the
moved to the last 2 rooms on the porch, now the administrative offices. New classrooms
Manatee Division Sea Cadets since its inception in August 2006. I will be stepping down in
replaced modulars in use and a new cafeteria and a library were added. In 1996 the current
September and joining the Regional Staff for other duties. My term has ended and I thank
library/media center was built and the old library became 2 more class rooms. In 1999 the
each and every one of you who have made it possible for our unit to reach the stage where
elementary and middle school buildings were completed along with the much needed gym-
it now is. There are no words that can be spoken for my dedicated staff that have provided
nasium.
their minds and souls into this unit and for the parents who have provided the forum for
Over the years students were transported by boat, bus and some students came by
their sons and daughters to excel. I only ask that your support continues so that the unit
horseback. The school mascot back then was the hawk and the school colors were red and
will continue to grow and be a positive influence on our young people. Thank you. LCDR
white. Today they are known as Sandgnats, small and mighty and their colors are yellow
Myron N. Wambold, NSCC Commanding Officer, Manatee Division NSCC
and green. There is great pride in the students who come here who over the years have taken
county and state awards in sports, science and educational challenges.
As you enter the main hall of YTS you see the Vision Mission which says: The
mission of Yankeetown School, it’s parents, and community is to develop confident, respon-
sible students who are academically well prepared, physically fit and emotionally healthy.
To accompolish this, we will encourage high individual achievement,
develop critical thinking,foster creativity and encourage individuality.
Crystal River man dies
in boating mishap
Brian A. Mullally, M.D.
The search for a Crystal River man, who went missing last Tuesday, ended the next
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day when Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) officers located his
body in the Gulf of Mexico.
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According to the FWC, Theodore R. Edwards III, 49, left the Highway 40 boat
• Child and adolescent care
ramp in Yankeetown on the Withlacoochee River to go fishing at 7:30 a.m., August 18. He
• Geriatric care
was operating a 1996 17-foot aluminum Polar vessel and was scheduled to return by 1:00
• Orthopedics
p.m. When his mother, Barbara L. Wollard, returned to the boat ramp at the appointed time
• Dermatology / skin biopsy
to pick him up and he did not return, she called the Coast Guard for help.
• Gynecology
FWC investigators said that the Coast Guard requested their assistance for a search
• Preventive care
and rescue mission, later that evening. Personnel from the FWC, the Coast Guard and the
• Minor surgery
Levy County Sheriff s Office continued the search effort throughout Tuesday night and into
• Diabetes control
Wednesday.
• Cancer screening
At approximately 1 p.m. Wednesday, FWC officers located Edwards body in the
•�Sports medicine
Gulf of Mexico, about 11 and a half miles west-northwest of Chamber Island, at the mouth
• Hypertension
of the Withlacoochee River.
• Cholesterol
Edwards was transported to the FWC s Crystal River Field Office by vessel and
• Weight management
then to the Medical Examiner s Office in Leesburg. Edwards boat had not been located as
• 15 plus years in practice
of this writing. The FWC is investigating the incident.
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