Column: A Year To Celebrate, Mourn

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While Interlachen football, Melrose and SJR baseball and Poole came up big, we lost a larger-than-life figure

  • Joyous Interlachen players come off the field after winning the Sunshine State Athletic League Atlantic Division title against Jacksonville Paxon. (RITA FULLERTON / Special to the Daily News)
    Joyous Interlachen players come off the field after winning the Sunshine State Athletic League Atlantic Division title against Jacksonville Paxon. (RITA FULLERTON / Special to the Daily News)
  • St. Johns River baseball coach Ross Jones talks with Palatka High product Layton DeLoach during a March 23 game. (MARK BLUMENTHAL / Palatka Daily News)
    St. Johns River baseball coach Ross Jones talks with Palatka High product Layton DeLoach during a March 23 game. (MARK BLUMENTHAL / Palatka Daily News)
  • Palatka’s Torryence Poole unloads one of her shot put attempts at the FHSAA 2A championship at the University of Florida on May 12. (MARK BLUMENTHAL / Palatka Daily News)
    Palatka’s Torryence Poole unloads one of her shot put attempts at the FHSAA 2A championship at the University of Florida on May 12. (MARK BLUMENTHAL / Palatka Daily News)
  • Melrose 15-and-under first baseman Gauge Barry douses head coach Dale Yarbrough after a 15-3 victory over West Volusia-Debary in the North Florida 15-U Babe Ruth All-Star baseball championship on July 17 in Lake City. (MARK BLUMENTHAL / Palatka Daily News)
    Melrose 15-and-under first baseman Gauge Barry douses head coach Dale Yarbrough after a 15-3 victory over West Volusia-Debary in the North Florida 15-U Babe Ruth All-Star baseball championship on July 17 in Lake City. (MARK BLUMENTHAL / Palatka Daily News)
  • Clarence “Pooh Bear” Williams helps lead a 2014 Crescent City Junior-Senior High football practice. (Daily News file photo)
    Clarence “Pooh Bear” Williams helps lead a 2014 Crescent City Junior-Senior High football practice. (Daily News file photo)
Starting today, only eight days remain this year. Seems like the year went too fast. Then again, compared to the previous two years, you and I will take 2022 in a heartbeat. Though COVID will…

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