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Squawk Box
Time to Circle the Wagons
With Doug Johnston
When groups of
American
frontiersmen
traveled, usually westward,
in search of a better life for
their families they encoun-
tered obstacles along the
way. Often they were at-
tacked by tribes of American Indians or
early forms of hijackers. When the odds
and numbers were against them they
would circle their wagons to put forth a
united front to ward off the enemy. Some-
times I think that is what we need to do in
Inglis and Yankeetown: Circle our wag-
ons.
With the slow down in our econ-
omy we are experiencing tough times.
Progress Energy has postponed outages
time and time again and is still in a state of
flux over building a new facility in Levy
County or whether or not to repair the old
one. Federal and State mandated restric-
tions have made it tougher for those who
have made a living shrimping, fishing and
crabbing in the warm waters of the Gulf.
Even hunting has not produced the influx
Monday it was "a one rake at a time Lyngbya Algae clean up" at Three Sisters Springs area in Crystal River. Volunteers "attacked" the algae
of campers and hunters as in the past.
from nine to noon, sponsored by the Kings Bay Rotary. The clean up effort was an extension of the weekend's Adopt A Shore clean up in Citrus
We are at a standstill. Unemployment,
County and all over the nation. The annual event tradionally takes place on the third Saturday in September. In a related story mechanical
according to to U.S. Labor Department,
harvesters have started the process of removing tussocks at Parsons Pt. in the Tsala Apopka chain of lakes. Newscaster Photo by Lee Paulet.
is at 8.8 percent in Florida but nearly 12
Three arrested for home
Lawsuit Stalls
percent in Levy County.
Yankeetown School, which stands as an
area institution as solid as the rock that it
invasion in Homosassa
Por t Citrus
was built with has half the students it had
just a few short years ago.
What affects one of us affects all
Feasibility Study
From Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
of us in Inglis and Yankeetown. We are
Around 6:00 a.m. on Sept. 16, the
small in numbers and we depend on the
Citrus County Sheriff s OFfice responded to
From Citrus County Public Information
precious few avenues of employment and
a S. Sonata Ave. Homosassa residence due
revenue available to us. It is our nature
Monday morning the negotiating
to a home invasion and battery.The 70 year-
as Americans to believe in ourselves and
team of the Citrus County Port Authority
old victim said he’d been awakened around
also believe that times will get better. One
was ready to meet with Martin Associates in
5:00 a.m. to several masked people beating
thing we can do to help our situation in
an open forum at the Lecanto Government
him. He said they tied him up and demanded
Inglis/Yankeetown is to support the lo-
Clinedinst
Fowler
Fischer
Building. But instead, because of a lawsuit
his prescription pain pills. They hit him sev-
cal businesses. We have shopping, we
that was served Friday afternoon at 5pm to
and thew clerk checking his identification.
eral more times, and he told him where his
have banks, we have a terrific school, we
Martin Associates, the port developer decid-
The clerk remembered the person’a date
prescribed oxycontin and methadone pills
have a local newspaper, (something most
ed to put the negotiating meeting on hold to
of birth. With that information, the deputy
were located. Deputies noted that one of the
towns our size are without). We also have
confer with corporate council.
learned this person’s name. From a photo,
individuals may have cut himself.
Continued on page 10 - Squawk Box
Commissioner Rebecca Bays
the clerk identified the person as one of the
Deputies learned that three people
opened the meeting and turned it directly
people who had been at the store.
had been at the Kasngeroo store located at
Mandatory
over to Port Attorney Richard Wesch to read
A couple hours later, three people
Cardinal Ln. and Bamma St., only a couple
into the record the email and phone conver-
were at Citrus Memorial Hospital - Israel
Garbage Pick Up
of blocks from the victim’s residence. The
sation he had with John Martin from Martin
Thomas Fowler,19, 2658 S. columbine Ave,
store’s surveillance video showed that one
Associates. Mr. Wesch said he, as well as
for Inglis?
Homosassa; Thomas Henry Fisher, 22, Ca-
of the people in the video had a cut on his
the rest of the negotiating team, understood
nadian way, Homosassa; and Robert Edward
arm. The time on the video surveillance was
Details pg. 11
Martin’s position. Robert A. Schweickert Jr.
Clinedinst, 33, 1235 S. Trellis Dr., Homo-
between 4:00 and 4:30 a.m. The video also
Continued on page 3 -Home Invasion
Continued on page 4 - Lawsuit
showed one of the people buying cigarettes,