WEATHER FORECASTERS WHO PREDICTED A WEEKEND OF RAIN DIDN’T GET IT RIGHT IN PUTNAM COUNTY WHERE THE BARTRAM FROLIC SAW SUNNY SKIES AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE. THE FROLIC HONORS WILLIAM BARTRAM, CONSIDERED THE FIRST AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC NATURALIST. PART OF THE TIME HE AND HIS FATHER SPENT IN THE SOUTH WAS A NINE-MONTH STAY IN THE PUTNAM-ST. JOHNS AREA IN THE 1700S. RE-ENACTORS, MUSICIANS, KAYAKERS, BICYCLISTS AND BOATERS HAD OPPORTUNITIES OVER THE WEEKEND TO FOLLOW IN THE BARTRAMS’ PATH. DURING THE “SERIOUS” PART OF THE FROLIC SUNDAY, ORGANIZERS SAM CARR AND DEAN CAMPBELL TALKED ABOUT EFFORTS TO EXPAND AND UPGRADE PORTIONS OF SIGNS IN SEVERAL COUNTIES THAT NEED TO BE REPAIRED. AND NO SURPRISE, THE HIT OF THE SHOW WAS MARK EMERY FILMS – BARTRAM’S “ALEGATOR OF THE ST. JOHNS”
ALTHOUGH WE DID NOT GET ANY OF THE RAIN THIS PAST WEEKEND ….THIS WEEK LOOKS LIKE WE WILL SEE SOME RAIN WITH 40% TODAY AND TOMORROW AND 70% ON WEDNESDAY AND 30% THURSDAY.
A FOUR-VEHICLE CRASH TRIGGERED BY THE RECKLESSNESS OF A DRIVER SHUT DOWN I-95 IN BOTH DIRECTIONS EARLY SATURDAY MORNING AND SENT TWO PEOPLE TO AREA HOSPITALS, ACCORDING TO THE FLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL.
THE CRASH TOOK PLACE AT MILE MARKER 294, JUST SOUTH OF THE FLAGLER-ST. JOHNS COUNTY LINE, AT 4:17 A.M.
ACCORDING TO FHP’S RECONSTRUCTION, A 27-YEAR-OLD MAN WAS TRAVELING NORTH ON A MOTORCYCLE, AND RIDING RECKLESSLY, ACCORDING TO WITNESSES. HE WAS PASSING CARS BY USING THE RIGHT-EMERGENCY SHOULDER LANE.
AN SUV HAD BEEN ABANDONED ON THE SHOULDER. THE MOTORCYCLIST CRASHED INTO IT AND WAS EJECTED. THE MOTORCYCLE DISINTEGRATED, SENDING SIGNIFICANT DEBRIS ONTO THE NORTHBOUND LANES OF THE INTERSTATE.
A 26-YEAR-OLD MAN FROM ST. CLOUD WAS AT THE WHEEL OF AN SUV, TRAVELING NORTH. WHEN THE SUV STRUCK THE DEBRIS, IT OVERTURNED SEVERAL TIMES, ROLLED OVER THE CENTER GUARD LANE AND CRASHED ON THE SOUTHBOUND SIDE OF I-95, IN THE CENTER LANE, ON ITS LEFT SIDE.
ANOTHER SUV WAS TRAVELING SOUTH, DRIVEN BY A 23-YEAR-OLD LYMAN, S.C. WOMAN, WITH TWO 23-YEAR-OLD PASSENGERS FROM THE SAME CITY. THAT SUV STRUCK DEBRIS FROM THE ST. CLOUD DRIVER’S SUV, RAN OFF THE ROAD TO THE RIGHT SHOULDER, AND CAUGHT ON FIRE.
THE MOTORCYCLIST HAD BEEN WEARING A HELMET, AND HAD BEEN ARMED WITH A FIREARM, WHICH WAS TAKEN INTO SHERIFF’S CUSTODY FOR SAFEKEEPING. AN EMERGENCY HELICOPTER WAS BRIEFLY PUT ON STANDBY BUT THE MOTORCYCLIST ENDED UP BEING TRANSPORTED BY AMBULANCE TO HALIFAX HOSPITAL WITH SERIOUS INJURIES. THE DRIVER FROM ST. CLOUD WAS TAKEN TO ADVENT HEALTH PALM COAST. THE DRIVER AND OCCUPANTS OF THE GOLD SUV THAT CAUGHT ON FIRE WERE NOT INJURED.
AUTHORITIES WERE STILL SEARCHING FOR THE OCCUPANT OR OWNER OF THE ABANDONED SUV
A VICTIM WAS AIRLIFTED FROM AN ATV ACCIDENT IN CRESCENT CITY SATURDAY, PUTNAM COUNTY FIRE RESCUE REPORTED.
THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED OFF OF DREAM POND ROAD.
A TRAUMA ALERT WAS DECLARED AND FIRE RESCUE UNITS REQUESTED A HELICOPTER.
REPORTEDLY THE VICTIM HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL AND IS AT HOME.
THE ST. JOHNS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE HAS FOUND AN INMATE WHO ATTEMPTED TO ESCAPE SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAID BRENDAN KUTS, 28, WAS PROVIDING MAINTENANCE AT THE SJSO TRAINING CENTER AS PART OF A WORK SQUAD AND ESCAPED.
SJCO SAID KUTS WAS CAUGHT WITHIN ONE HOUR AND TAKEN BACK INTO CUSTODY.
JAIL RECORDS SHOW KUTS IS IN JAIL ON BURGLARY CHARGES.
“THIS IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS THE BOARD. FROM OUR PARTNER AGENCIES’ IMMEDIATE RESPONSE TO ASSIST AND OUR RESIDENTS WHO CONTACTED THE ST. JOHNS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE TO PROVIDE CRITICAL INFORMATION, THIS INCIDENT WAS A TEAM EFFORT THAT RESULTED IN A RAPID APPREHENSION OF INMATE KUTS,” SJCO SAID.
“NICE TRY, KUTS, BUT NOT HAPPENING IN ST. JOHNS COUNTY. THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.”
THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAID MORE CHARGES ARE EXPECTED.
DEPUTY’S ATTIC WILL OPEN TODAY OUR CITY OF PALATKA MAYOR ROBBI CORREA WILL CUT A RIBBON, PASTOR JOHN SCHAEFER WILL BLESS THE ADVENTURE AND THEN THEY WILL OPEN. 623 ST. JOHNS AVE. JEAN DEPUTY AND HER SON SAM ARE STARTING ON A NEW ADVENTURE AT THEIR FORMER GRAPHICS II SHOP
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