BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— The city council approved a $167,236 budget to rebuild the stage area at Keystone Beach, another $258,774 to improve the restrooms at the lakeside park and $3,900 for a cost analysis to upgrade the parking lot at the facility. The city has already remodeled the facility’s pavilion, and…

Commissioners set legislative priorities  BY DAN HILDEBRAN  Monitor Editor  GREEN COVE SPRINGS— Clay County’s lobbyist told commissioners during a workshop that state lawmakers are predicting overflowing tax revenues for the state next year, and that Clay County should take advantage of the burgeoning state coffers.   “I heard something this week in Tallahassee I’ve never heard before in my career,” lobbyist Joe Mobley…

BY DAN HILDEBRAN  Monitor Editor  GREEN COVE SPRINGS— Clay County commissioners approved Phase 1 of a recreational sports complex to be built near Camp Blanding, north of the intersection of State Roads 16 and 21.   The contracts, one for purchase of the 250-acre parcel and a second to build Phase 1 of the park, will be…

  BY DAN HILDEBRAN  Monitor Editor  KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Several business owners complained to the city council about what they said would be a tripling of their commercial garbage collection fees, during a Nov. 1 council meeting.    Barbara Franklin, vice-president, secretary and treasurer of the Keystone-Lake Region Business Association said she received several complaints from business owners about the rate hikes.  …