WAFC Local News – November 11, 2026, 8:06 AM
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I’m Charles Murphy reporting. The Henry County School Board recently agreed to a contract with Henry Regional Medical Center for an employee health clinic. It gives school employees priority when getting doctor’s appointments and treatment. Our goal is to be better tomorrow than we were today. School board member Stephanie Buesen wants results from the clinic. It would be a disservice not to give you a chance to be better. I’m gonna be hard on you now because I want this to like burn in your cross so bad that you wanna do everything to prove me wrong. Be like, Stephanie is such a hater and look what we’re doing. I want you to prove every reservation that I have wrong, every negative thing I’ve said. I want you to prove me wrong. David Thoreau vowed to get care to employees within 24 hours. We are internally taking steps to improve both the safety and quality of the care that we deliver. The cost of the district is expected to be about 650,000 this year. The clinic has been open for weeks. They’re expected to build a new clinic in Ida LaBelle or Cluiston next year. South Bay resident, Vernadice Fuchs got into a verbal argument with city officials over public records. Because unfixed income I can’t afford. Buesen says those unfixed incomes want to know how their tax money is being spent, but can’t afford the public records to know. She also wanted the city to do more to help them on fixed incomes. Fuchs attacked city manager, Leandre Camel verbally about the city policy and he responded. He’s not truthful. He’s not honest. You gotta have, you gotta take your recording and make sure you record everything you said because I don’t want to be called. Mr. Mayor, Mr. Mayor, I’m gonna tell you right now that Ms. Fuchs is not going to misrepresent me on the mic. Because I’m disappointed in you. Let’s cut the, let’s stop. Cut it off completely. Glades County has continued this fall to discuss ways to improve drainage. There’s been a lot of rain, including flooding last week. Palmdale and the US 27 corridor tends to flood each fall due to heavy rains. There are other areas that flooded this year leading to some concern about changes in county policies on culverts. County commissioner, Jeff Patterson says they need to work on culverts before they become a problem. Do I think we need to go out there and replace every culvert that’s bad right now at one time? No, I don’t. I think we need to be looking while we’re doing right away maintenance and saying, hey, there’s some culverts out here that are messed up. We need to probably go and get on them while we’re dry, while we can work on them. County commissioner, Jerry Sapp, wants the county to do their part to help drainage. The culverts are on county property and I believe it’s our responsibility to keep them clean. Former commissioner, Russell Echols, has promised to help the county work with property owners to solve the problem. I have no problem with the corporation making money. But when a corporation’s dream puts everybody else at risk for their profits, then we got a problem. Several Clewiston sponsors and Joseph Davis came together to raise over $20,000 this fall to support the athletic programs at Clewiston High School and Clewiston Middle School. The school board took time out to honor the group in a recent post online. They thanked their generosity, commitment, and unwavering support of Clewiston’s student athletes. I’m Charles Murphy, WAFC News.
Recorded from the WAFC daily newscast (Glades Media).