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NEWS
Nobody Home: PPD warrant sweep comes up mostly empty
PALATKA -- The driving rain added insult to injury
Tuesday for the Palatka Police Department, soaking police and probation officers
as they attempted to serve about 20 people with active arrest warrants during
“Operation Housecleaning.”►Read
More Getchell: Moving city benches to cemeteries helps ease problem Two benches near Ninth Street and St. Johns Avenue were removed last fall by the Palatka Police Department after ongoing complaints about vagrants sleeping on them and drug dealers and prostitutes using them to conduct business.►Read More
TV anchor tells PAL kids they can achieve PALATKA — Mark Spain wants the children of Palatka to believe they can achieve. Spain, the 7 p.m. anchor for Jacksonville’s First Coast News, spoke to more than 100 children attending the Panther Summer Youth Camp at the Weed and Seed Building on Madison Street Thursday afternoon.►Read More
A Good Seed: PPD program secretary Ronice Fells straightened out her life PALATKA -- Ronice Fells has the keys to a Madison Street building where she used to smoke crack. Fells is the secretary for the Weed and Seed offender re-entry program, which helps those recently released from prison get jobs and places to live.►Read More
A Godsend: Blessings counted as Weed and Seed facility officially opens PALATKA -- Kandra Albury said some of God’s hardest missions are the toughest. Albury’s mission of turning the old Huntley Supermarket into the Weed and Seed Safe Haven as part of the federal neighborhood revitalization program started in the spring. The Madison Street building was a shell then. Rooms were gutted. Walls were bare.►Read More
Having a Ball: PAL program precedes Weed and Seed on Madison Street PALATKA -- In August, the new Weed and Seed building on Madison Street will house an after-school program. This summer, it is where children play. Twenty-one-year-old Cora Fells, a substitute teacher at Beasley Middle School, watched Monday as Sgt. Jason Shaw of the Palatka Police Department officiated a game of “indoor volleyball” in which two groups of children tossed a red dodge ball over a row of plastic chairs.►Read More
Palatka PD is tested for Racial Profiling: Passes with highest rating
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