BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Keystone Heights High School attempted a rally in the final inning, scoring four runs before eventually losing 7-5 to visiting Santa Fe in a softball game on April 10. With one on and two outs in the bottom of the seventh, the Indians (4-13) got a single from Nattallie…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Gage Smith drove in two of his three runs in the first inning as the Keystone Heights High School baseball team defeated host Williston 6-3 on April 10. The Indians (12-4) scored five runs in all in the first. Chase Packham hit a leadoff single before Austin Musgrove was…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS—Clay County Sheriff Michelle Cook joined other county officials and the staff of Quigley House to mark Sexual Violence Awareness Month during a news conference at Quigley House: the domestic violence and sexual assault center in Green Cove Springs. “Every day, the men and women of the Clay…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS—Keystone Heights Mayor Karen Lake chaired her final city council meeting on April 3. At the end of the meeting, Lake summarized some of the city’s accomplishments during her six-and-a-half years leading the town. Other Council members, City Manager Lynn Rutkowski and City Attorney Rich Komando, thanked the…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS—The developers of Popeye’s Fried Chicken in Keystone Heights have poured the foundation for the new eatery and are erecting framing for the building between the town’s Walgreens and Dollar General on Green Way. City Manager Lynn Rutkowski told the city council during the council’s April 3 meeting…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS—Clay Electric said its foundation awarded 13 organizations $165,900 in March. Lake Area Ministries in Keystone Heights and the Foundation for Florida Gateway College led the nonprofits in gifts, receiving $20,000 each. Clay Electric said the Lake Region food bank will use its funds to finance its food…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Keystone Heights High School track and field athletes Tyler Griffin and Kiersten Shaw earned top-four finishes at the Don Hall Invitational, which was held April 6 at Orange Park High School. Griffin ran a third-place time of 4:50 in the 1600m, while Shaw cleared 4-6 for a fourth-place finish…
BY DAN HILDEBRAN Telegraph Staff Writer KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Airport officials and tenants said goodbye to departing airport manager Maria Searcy during a reception at the facility on March 31. Searcy arrived at the event in a hot rod owned by retired commercial pilot and current airport tenant Ken Oddy. Officials from some of the airport’s…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Keystone Heights High School had already settled for the runner-up trophy in the Olympic competition and was in second place behind Suwannee in the traditional competition, trailing by a score of 53-49. Its hopes for the championship trophy rested on the shoulders of Tyler Anthony-Rozier. Everyone else was done…
BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Aiden Screen hit a two-run single as part of a three-run fifth inning that proved to be the difference as the Keystone Heights High School baseball team defeated visiting Bradford 7-4 on April 4. Keystone starting pitcher Austin Musgrove gave up three runs (two earned) through five innings, allowing…
