Tag Archives: Putnam County

Patricia Mullins couldn’t hear the gunshots over her vacuum Sunday evening, Jan. 26, despite their close proximity to her home. Terry “T.J.” Monahan, 16, was found at a house on Locust Avenue’s 1800 block dead with a gunshot wound on Jan. 26, according to a release by Putnam County Sheriff’s officer Capt. …

The Putnam County School District is taking steps to create a healthier lifestyle for students, faculty and staff with its new fitness challenge, Walking to Wellness. William D. Moseley Elementary School in Palatka is hosting the fall fitness challenge, where faculty and staff will track how many steps they take each day.

Ironwood Golf Course in Gainesville and Palatka Golf Club are each headed in a more positive direction, despite years of operating at a financial loss.

As the Halloween season creeps forward, some schools are choosing to include Halloween themes in students' lesson plans. However, for Putnam and Columbia County, school districts are focusing on keeping the themes in line with lesson plans.

North Central Florida agencies increasingly use Facebook and other social media sites as a method to find suspects, gather evidence and give residents crime updates.

Georgia-Pacific and the City of Palatka are working to build a $1.2 million riverfront educational center for students in grades two through six. Though the center meets the city's "living shoreline" goal, some residents voiced their concerns that it will disrupt the downtown area and teach questionable educational viewpoints to students.

Dianne's Old Time Barbecue in Hawthorne still sees slow business two years after a local plywood mill shut down.

The College Board, creator of the SAT, released a report stating only 43 percent of graduating high school students are ready for college-level course work.

Transportation officials discussed the final plans to renovate the remaining segment of State Road 20 at a public hearing on Sept. 12. The Florida Department of Transportation has been working for about 25 years on the project.

Jeff Gray is a truck driver living in St. Augustine whose hobby has amassed more than 1.4 million YouTube views. He has a simple approach: show up in a public place with a camera and a thorough knowledge of what law enforcement can and cannot ask him to do.