Author: William Snowden (Page 2 of 13)

New city manager works to clean up city hall

Katherine Gatewood has been on the job for about a month

St. Marks City Manager
Katherine Gatewood

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

With Hurricane Helene bearing down on St. Marks a few weeks ago and residents bracing for impacts, new St. Marks City Manager Katherine Gatewood was also preparing – but to her dismay discovered the city has no disaster plan for employees, no vendor list to turn to for emergency help.

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Homeless dropoff

Ochlockonee Bay merchants say Franklin County is leaving men there

A screenshot from surveillance video at Tide Creek Coastal Market in Ochlockonee Bay showing a Franklin County deputy dropping off a shirtless, shoeless man on Sunday, Sept. 29 at 5:56 a.m. The man was at the store all day asking store employees for food, customers for money until Wakulla deputies were called at closing.

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

The surveillance video shows a Franklin County deputy sheriff’s truck pulling into the parking lot around sunrise and letting off a man in shorts, shirtless though he’s holding a shirt, and shoeless. The deputy drops off the man and then drives away, headed back across the bridge to Franklin County.

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Hurricane Helene misses us

A last minute wobble sent the Category 4 hurricane east of St. Marks into Taylor County

Stan West of Riverside Cafe in St. Marks takes a pause from cleaning out mud from his restaurant. He was all smiles: ‘We expected a lot worse.’ (PHOTO BY WILLIAM SNOWDEN)

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

Warned of Hurricane Helene becoming a Category 4 and possible storm surge of as much as 20 feet, Wakulla county commissioners issued a mandatory evacuation order for the entire county on Tuesday, Sept. 24.

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More on Kemp case

Some ask why County Commissioner Ralph Thomas wasn’t questioned

Ralph Thomas
Mike Kemp

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

Several people are questioning why County Commissioner Ralph Thomas was not interviewed by Wakulla County Sheriff’s detectives in the case of County Commissioner Mike Kemp drawing felony charges for using a public record to harass.

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