Gainesville celebrates Juneteenth weekend
Yvette Carter celebrated Juneteenth for half a decade before the rest of Gainesville caught up.
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Yvette Carter celebrated Juneteenth for half a decade before the rest of Gainesville caught up.
An accreditation committee cleared UF’s name after a monthslong investigation following its possible restriction of academic freedom.
Covered by the pink hue of flashing multicolor lights, an exuberant crowd filled How Bazar’s “D*ke Night” Saturday. Queer women and nonbinary folks of all ages danced to jams from Doja Cat to Daddy Yankee, smoked American Spirit cigarettes and spun around on roller skates.
Jackson O’Neill turned 13 a month before the Parkland shooting.
Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Raemi Eagle-Glenn Thursday to fill the District 1 seat, which she lost an election for to former commissioner Mary Alford in 2020 with 32% of the vote.
The Gainesville City Commission voted unanimously Thursday to forge ahead with the proposed East Gainesville sports complex.
A sculpture dedicated to a Gainesville activist and African American studies professor will replace a confederate soldier statue that used to sit downtown.
Leanne Haggerty took a shaky breath as she watched a live stream of police cars circling Robb Elementary School from her Gainesville bedroom. Text scrolled across the screen: more than a dozen children killed.
Gainesville City Commission’s Thursday meeting was canceled due to a COVID-19 outbreak among officials.
Twenty-one days after city commissioners voted 6-0 to demolish and replace the historic Thelma A. Boltin Center, Mayor Lauren Poe deemed “People Saving Places” as Gainesville’s theme for National Preservation Month 2022.
County Commissioner Mary Alford resigned May 16 after a Gainesville Sun investigation found her in violation of residency requirements.
The new Alachua County Sports Event Center is one beam closer to opening its structure with an NCAA-approved indoor track and tennis, basketball and volleyball courts.
Flyers with COVID-19 statistics are being swapped out for artistic displays.
Each time the Century Tower bell marks the next period, students enter classrooms wondering if they should don or ditch a mask.
Cheers and applause roared through the crowd of nearly 500 people draped in rainbow flags with shirts that read “y’all means all,” “love wins” and “HUMAN.”
Gainesville Mayor Lauren Poe held the 2022 State of the City Address at the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention Monday where he spoke about Imagine GNV — the city’s first comprehensive plan of its kind.
With his lip lifted up to the side and a bright twinkle in his eye, Neil Butler Sr. ran around Downtown Gainesville in a fresh, white nurse suit. Despite always being in a rush to get somewhere, he stopped to talk to anyone who said hello.
Makasia Purdy, 14, lost her 13-year-old friend, Christopher Scott, at a party in June 2021.
With her hand on the Bible her mother gave her 49 years ago, Cynthia Chestnut repeated the oath of office during her City Commissioner swearing-in ceremony.
Students can cast their votes at eight polling locations, including a new law college option, in the Spring UF Student Government Elections.