Friday Flashback

Today we have some old images from the 100 Year centennial supplement 1861-1961 of “The Southland Daily News” (not to be confused with The Southland Times)
The News as it was also known was started by George Smallfield on February 16 1861 from a shed in Tay street and later relocating to Dee street next to the then Briscoes building.

Special thanks to Jeff Ross for the newspapers.

In 1924 after a rail strike led The News to form their own passenger bus service to deliver their papers all over Southland, by 1961 they ran buses to Wyndham, Gore,Waitane, Dipton and Tuatapere, these routes were supplemented by other transport operators bringing the buses daily used to 23.

Below the work started to add trams (from 1881 – 1912) they were drawnpublic schools.

The state teachers union, PTA and the League of Women voters of Florida are also participating.

The coalition of voter groups that originally challenged maps draw during redistricting efforts in 2012 said they will also apeal newly draw maps approved earlier this month by a Leon County circuit court.

Lewis ruled that the new map would go into effect for the 2016 election. Both Brown and Webster are running for re-election now under the old boundary lines.

The coalition that originally challenged that map said the new one doesn't fix the issues they've raised and have criticized Lewis' ruling. They said the changes the Legislature approved to districts 5 and 10 didn't go far enough to fix the political gerrymandering.

The voter groups have now asked the state's First District Court