BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Head Coach Lantz Lowery tried to come up with the perfect adjective. Crazy. Amazing. Special. However you want to describe it, Keystone Heights High School won its third straight championship at the Florida High School Athletic Association Class 1A Boys Weightlifting Finals, which were held April 15 in Lakeland.…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Voters approved a charter amendment that will allow the city council to increase the dollar amount of purchases the city could make without soliciting bids and a second that will allow for the censure of council members. However, they turned away an amendment that would have allowed…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Connor Guy and Chase Packham each drove in two runs as part of a 10-run first inning as the Keystone Heights High School baseball team defeated host Palatka 13-4 on April 11. The Indians (13-4) opened the game with back-to-back doubles from Packham and Austin Musgrove, with Musgrove’s hit…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Keystone Heights Junior-Senior High School students toured the airport on April 11 and 13. The seventh, eighth, eleventh and twelfth graders listened to workers in the aviation industry about careers in the field. Former airport manager Maria Searcy, who organized and participated in the event, said that…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— The St. Johns River Water Management District said Lake Brooklyn’s water level remained 106 feet above sea level during March, despite emerging drought conditions in the district’s 18-county jurisdiction. “Rainfall in the northern counties was average to above average last month, while dry conditions continued in the…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— The St. Johns River Water Management District governing board unanimously approved a $23 million contract to filter water from Black Creek before releasing it into Alligator Creek, north of Lake Brooklyn in Keystone Heights. The filtering system is part of the Black Creek Water Resource Development Project,…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Less than a dozen Lake Region residents showed up at the beach pavilion Monday night to tell officials how they want land preserved throughout Clay County. Ramesh Buch and Heather Nagy of the North Florida Land Trust, in addition to county Planner Dodie Selig were in town…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS—The Keystone Heights Heritage Commission hosted over 100 fourth graders from Keystone Heights Elementary School to teach the students about the town’s history. During the April 6 field trip, students watched a video about what school was like in the early 1900s and learned about the town’s beginnings…
Martha Carter Martha Phillips Carroll Riherd Carter, 90, died Thursday, April 6, 2023, after a long illness. She was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. She left Charleston to attend the University of Florida, where she met and married a young man named Paul Riherd. They lived in Lake Butler for 37 years, where,…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS—Incoming Mayor Nina Rodenroth spoke to the Keystone Heights Rotary Club on Wednesday, April 5, discussing her background and approach to leading the city. Rodenroth told the civic group that she got into the field of histology: the study of the microscopic structure of tissues, while looking for…
