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Jackson County state park may close
SNEADS – Three Rivers State park in Sneads could be closed as part of looming state budget cuts. State agencies were required to submit plans to reduce their operating budgets by 10 percent for the 2009-10 fiscal year.
The Department of Environmental Protection’s Florida Park Service is cutting $7.7 million, and that could include transferring Three Rivers on Lake Seminole back to its owners, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The park is managed by DEP under a 50-year lease. Corps officials said they would not announce plans for closure until after the next state legislative session.
The DEP announced that 19 parks may be at least temporarily closed to save $1.5 million. The Division of Recreation and Parks also proposes to cut $4 million from its budget for outsourcing.
The 19 parks are:
• Yellow River Marsh Preserve State Park in Santa Rosa County
• St. Marks River State Park in Leon County
• Lake June-In-Winter Scrub State Park in Highlands County
• Pumpkin Hill Creek Preserve State Park in Nassau County
• Constitution Convention Museum State Park in Gulf County
• John Gorrie Museum State Park in Franklin County
• Deer Lake State Park in Walton County
• Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek State Park in Polk County
• Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park in Escambia County
• Terra Ceia Preserve State Park in Manatee County
• Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park in Jefferson County
• Dunns Creek in Putnam County
• San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park in Wakulla County
• Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park in Monroe County
• Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park in Monroe County
• Dudley Farm Historic State Park in Gilchrist County
• Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park in Okeechobee County
• Nature and Heritage Tourism Center in Hamilton County
• Cedar Key Museum State Park in Levy County.
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| I read the Holmes County Times the other day to find this discrace of a newspaper printing anonymous communications. In one case the items in question were about the recreation center and the others were about Sheriff Tim Brown. The communications were taken from the newspaper's website and published on the opinion page anonymously. That is a crime. Shame on you Jay Liesberg. Below is what the law says and I suspect when the new state attorney takes office, Mr. Liesberg can expect a criminal complaint to be filed. Owner or editor of the paper also guilty. Any owner, manager, publisher or editor of any newspaper or other publication who permits any anonymous communication or communications such as is signed otherwise than with the true name of the writer, and such name published therewith to appear in the columns of the publication in which said communication any person is attacked in his or her good name, or it is attempted to bring disgrace or ridicule upon any person, such owner, manager, publisher or editor shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. |
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| Charlie C - Nov 25, 2008 05:56:26 PM | Remove Comment |
