Scott Kornegay woke up at 5:30 a.m. Monday, just he did every morning in the past four-and-a-half years as the City Manager of Keystone Heights. But unlike the past few years, he wasn’t facing a busy schedule. Other than meandering around his property in the afternoon, his itinerary was open.
Alan Watt is starting off his second term with the town’s council as the mayor and he’s been appointed to that position in an interesting period in Orange Park history.
Republican David Theus is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, replacing Ted Yoho in Florida’s 3rd Congressional District with goals to focus on simple values. “I believe our Veterans are highly important,” he said.
Clay County residents whose applications have been accepted will soon be selling their homes back to the county. The National Department of Economic Opportunity is helping the county to do it.
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As county leaders from the public and private sectors work together to assertively market Clay County in the regional free market, leaders agree they need to be on the same page – literally. The county’s current written strategic economic development plan dates back to 2005.
For the last two years there has been a monster waiting in Green Cove Springs, however, this monster doesn’t have fangs or claws. It stands at more than 15 stories tall and is covered in the rust and algae that two years’ layaway will do to a model NASA Space Shuttle ex ternal fuel tank waiting to get to its new home.
A native of the county seat, Bruce Butler Jr., 34, now lives in Puerto Rico, traveling around the Caribbean and as far as Alaska with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He works as a game warden at national wildlife refuges – a career he wouldn’t have without a college education he received with the help of J.P. Hall Children’s Charities.
City officials are working with Green Cove Dragway owner Pete Scalzo to address noise concerns raised by a St. Johns Avenue couple who feel the muffler and engine sounds are too intrusive.
