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  • Adams seeks exit audit for Thorpe

    INVERNESS — While questioning budget transfers of grant funds Tuesday as part of the regular business of the county commission, Commissioner Scott Adams said he would like the county to have an exit audit when County Administrator Brad Thorpe retires later this year.

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  • Meek: All will pay some

    The county’s proposed flat fees for fire protection service will raise some residents’ taxes while not affecting others, the county commission chairman acknowledged Wednesday.

    “In certain instances, people are not going to see an increase,” Commissioner Joe Meek told the Chronicle’s editorial board. “In certain instances, people are. It depends on what the property appraiser values your house.”

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  • Fire in the hole

    Citrus County officials are doing their best to lay bare the essentials of a public safety budget ahead of a July 23 public meeting which will ratify a flat fee on taxpayers and provide for a concurrent adjustment to property taxes.

    Wednesday, Sheriff Jeff Dawsy, his top brass, including fire chief Larry Morabito, and County Commission Chairman Joe Meek visited the Chronicle’s Editorial Board to talk about the proposed municipal service taxing unit and the municipal service benefit unit.

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  • Adams: ‘Our leaders have failed you’

    BEVERLY HILLS — Scott Adams isn’t slowing down.

    Speaking Wednesday before Citrus County’s largest coalition of civic and homeowners groups, the freshman commissioner continued to paint a picture of misrepresentation, one in which his fellow commissioners do not have the public’s best interest at heart.

    “I’m going to stick with the truth,” Adams said. “If they choose to do the right thing, that’s up to them.”

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  • Inverness photographer’s work selected for magazine

    Photographs by Inverness nature and wildlife photographer Larry Jordan have been selected to appear in the July/August issue of “Alabama Journey,” the official journal of the Automobile Club of Alabama. With annual circulation of more than 1.2 million, the magazine is distributed to 205,000 AAA members per issue.

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  • Local FCAT scores released

    INVERNESS — Scholarly students attend Citrus County public schools, according to Florida Department of Education.

    Scores released Friday for Citrus County School District’s 2013 Reading, Math, Writing, Science and end-of-course on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT, confirmed students outperformed many districts in the state.

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  • Learn elder abuse signs at seminar

    LECANTO — As the elder population increases, so does elder mistreatment — abuse and neglect.

    According to statistics from the Department of Health and Human Services, the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population is age 85 and older. In 2010, there were 5.8 million people age 85 or older.

    By 2050, people age 65 and older are expected to comprise 20 percent of the total U.S. population — 19 million people aged 85 or older.

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  • Streetscaping contract set

    CRYSTAL RIVER — City officials are ready to roll on a plan to architecturally unify Citrus Avenue and provide a facelift for the north stretch of the roadway.

    In their capacity as the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) board, city council members voted unanimously Monday to authorize work to streetscape North Citrus Avenue and landscape a new median for the road. Councilman Mike Gudis was absent.

    Pave-Rite got the contract worth nearly $200,000.

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  • School board OKs new principals

    INVERNESS — One of Citrus County’s newest school principals won’t have to go far to inquire about school board policy.

    She just has to ask her mom.

    The school board on Tuesday approved Alice Harrell as principal at Citrus Springs Elementary School, where she had served as assistant principal.

    Board member Ginger Bryant is Harrell’s mother. Bryant abstained from the vote that confirmed her daughter’s appointment.

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  • Manatee group to mull lyngbya-harvesting plan

    A voluntary plan to monitor mechanical harvesting of lyngbya in King’s Bay is under review.

    The plan was developed by the Southwest Florida Water Management District to settle a dispute over the cleanup process.

    The Save the Manatee Club filed a formal complaint with Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, which issued the permit. The lyngbya cleanup, which includes the use of mechanical harvesters, is a joint effort by Save Crystal River and Art Jones’s One Rake at a Time project.

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