BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] Palatka High School scored six touchdowns and held Keystone Heights to 147 total offensive yards in shutting out the Indians 40-0 in a District 5, 2A game on Friday, October 25. The Panthers got on the board first with a tailback pass from running back Justin Fells to quarterback Tommy Offord…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] Visiting Chiefland, which is fifth in the Florida High School Athletic Association/MaxPreps Rural Class power rankings, ran for more than 400 yards en route to a 54-0 win over the Keystone Heights High School football team on Oct. 18. The 7-1 Indians from Levy County entered intermission with a 41-0 lead,…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] The Bradford and Keystone Heights high school boys teams have qualified for the inaugural Florida Class 1A Public School Championship, which will be played Friday, Oct. 25, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at Lake City’s Quail Heights Country Club. Keystone Coach Ryan Begue, who serves on the tournament committee with Lafayette Coach…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Keystone Heights High School’s cross-country teams competed in the Oct. 19 New World Fall Spectacular, hosted by Bolles at Cecil Field Golf Course in Jacksonville, with Olivia Griffin earning a top-five finish and Ryder Thomas placing 11th out of a field of 400. Griffin competed in the girls C race (runners…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] A ceremony billed as marking cooperation between four sheriffs’ offices turned political when Putnam County Sheriff Homer “Gator” DeLoach criticized a former Alachua County Sheriff and endorsed current Sheriff Emery Gainey in his race against challenger Chad Scott. The Four Corners Agreement, signed by the top law enforcement officers in Alachua,…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] The group organizing Keystone Height’s 100th anniversary has delayed a family-friendly event initially scheduled for December 31 and will reschedule the event for a later date. Ginger Lee, chairperson of the Friends of Keystone Heights, said her group had problems lining up vendors and volunteers for the December 28 family event.…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] Keystone Heights Junior-Senior High School and the elementary school across the street went on modified lockdown during the afternoon of Wednesday, October 16. Sheriff Michelle Cook said she ordered the action after two suspects, Quentin Foster, and James Lewis, ran from her deputies near the high school. One teacher said that…
The following individuals were arrested recently by local law enforcement officers in Bradford, Union or Clay (Keystone Heights-area) counties. All defendants are considered innocent until convicted in a court or until pleading guilty or no contest. Information in this report is from law enforcement agencies and court documents, which are public records. Bradford Franly Leonel…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] Keystone Heights High School’s football team fumbled three times in the first half and committed a costly roughing-the-kicker penalty in the third quarter en route to a 30-7 loss against District 5-2A opponent Santa Fe on Oct. 11 in Alachua. Penalties dominated the matchup, with referees assessing two penalties before the…
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