Tom Heffernan

Heffernan receives 50-year certificate from Lake City American Legion

Aug 9, 2023

Lake City American Legion Post 110 Commander Dick Grobe (left) presents a certificate to Tom Heffernan recognizing Heffernan for 50 years of continuous membership in Legion Post 110.

Tom Heffernan named parade grand marshal

Jun 21, 2023

A familiar face in the Water Ski Days grand parade will be the event’s grand marshal this year. Heidi Schwer, the parade coordinator, said Tom Heffernan, who owns Tom Heffernan Ford in Lake City, was chosen for his long history of support for Water Ski Days and the community as a whole. He...

Tom Heffernan celebrates 49 years in Lake City

Apr 13, 2022

On April 1, employees at Tom Heffernan Ford in Lake City congratulated Tom Heffernan on his 49th anniversary as owner of the dealership. Front row, from left: Judy Glander, Tom Heffernan, and Marie Heffernan. Back row, from left: Roger Sanders, John Wieck, Rocky Copley, Mark Renshaw, Peter Klein,...

Heffernan donates car for fire department raffle

Jun 16, 2021

Tom Heffernan Ford of Lake City has once again donated a vehicle to be the grand prize in a raffle drawing during the 123rd annual Lake City Fireman’s Dance on July 3 at the fire hall. This year it’s a 2012 Ford Focus (a mistake on the raffle ticket identified it as a 2013). It’s a five-door...

Highway crew working hard

Sep 30, 2020

I would like to congratulate all the guys and gals who are working on the Highway 61 reconstruction project. They are all hard workers. I see them every day out there working - rain or shine, hot or cold - doing their best to get the job done. I see no slackers, just hard-working people who know...

Letter: City snow crews doing a great job

Jan 29, 2020

To the editor: To the city’s street department, thank you for the wonderful job you have been doing in our snow season. The streets are cleaned in no time. Snow is removed from Lakeshore Drive curbs. You are doing a great job. Thank you. Thank you. This is one of the many, many reasons why Lake...

Letter: Time to rethink highway project

Dec 4, 2019

To the editor: I read in last week’s Graphic that the bid for Lake City’s new two-lane highway came in over $2.5 million over budget with Lake City contributing $3.5 million to the project. Isn’t it time to maybe rethink the whole project? If we keep the four-lanes the state will overlay it free....

Letter: City depts. wonderful in storm response

Oct 2, 2019

To the editor: Thank you Lake City street department, light department, water department, fire department, police department and first responders. You did a wonderful job on last Tuesday night’s tornado. No lives were lost or anyone hurt, the downed trees were cleaned up, the next day the power...

Letter: Detours will be disastrous to Lake City small businesses

Aug 14, 2019

To the editor: I saw an article in the Graphic (“2020 detours detailed at manufacturers luncheon” on Aug. 1) that when they replace our Highway 61 from our four-lane road to a 1920s two-lane road that they are going to close the highway downtown during construction. That would be disastrous to...

Back to Korea

Oct 11, 2018

Tom Heffernan served as a military police officer in South Korea in 1955, shortly after an armistice brought open warfare to to a close on the Korean Peninsula. He told his wife, Marie, that he thought he’d never return. But after some online investigation, Marie discovered a program offered by...