Back again after several years, Rachel Grubb came from Lake City, Florida, with her song,
Cruising Down the Suwannee,
and won not only
Best Americana Indie-Folk Song,
but also
First Prize,
in the Suwannee Riverkeeper Songwriting Contest 2024.
She got plaques for both, and a $300 check for First Prize.
That committee is currently taking public comment on the legislative
efforts to name sections of some of the state’s 64 streams and
rivers as navigable and open to the public for boating, fishing, and
hunting.
Right now an old Civil War law prohibits a lot of that from
happening.
Suwannee Riverkeeper John Quarterman, who was eager to see changes
in the present laws, says that postponing the meeting was the right
thing to do.
jsq: …which is all sensible, I think.
I had thought of asking them, could you, at least, delay this?
Because I’ve been asking county commission members and city council
members, and naturally they’ve been telling me they’re kind of busy
with still doing cleanup, and so this is a good thing, I think.