Jim Ferrer, the former assistant vice president of finance and planning at UF, hosted a St. Patrick’s Day party Saturday at his house to celebrate the holiday for the past five or six years.
Deputies arrested a man March 4 after he punched a President Donald Trump supporter in the face after an argument outside Countryside Baptist Church. Michael Robert Chriss, 64, punched Charles Duane Webster, 61, as the two joined a crowd of hundreds outside the church, located at 10926 NW 39th Ave. The crowd, primarily protesters, gathered following a town hall meeting with Rep. Ted Yoho in the church. Yoho, a Republican who represents Florida’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes Alachua, Clay and Bradford counties and parts of Marion County, answered questions about issues such as Trump’s temporary travel ban, health care, LGBTQ+ rights and the alleged ties between the president’s administration and Russia. The protesters were not allowed inside the town hall and, instead, chanted and waved signs. - Meryl Kornfield
On Monday, about 100 stood on Turlington Plaza to mourn the death of Karan Khullar, a 22-year-old foreign exchange student who died on Feb. 11 after he was hit at a bus stop by a drunken driver, police said.
Students in Karen Melvin’s kindergarten class participated in an “Eggsperiment” on Monday. The activity was part of a series of events celebrating Black History Month at Littlewood Elementary School. The class studied different colored eggs and predicted what they would look like on the inside, before cracking them open to see if they were right.
An amendment to allow online voting failed, along with 10 other amendments to UF's Student Government Constitution on Wednesday. Impact also won 48 of 50 Senate seats, with one independent candidate winning a Graduate seat and a write-in candidate winning a seat for the College of Dentistry.
At the Big Sean and Lil Yachty concert, hosted by Student Government Productions and the Black Student Union, security and staff struggled to contain the crowd. About 6,000 people, packed into the O’Connell Center on Wednesday night.
More than 20 people march down Northwest 75th Street to protest the Dakota Access pipeline during the Emergency Demonstration in Solidarity with Standing Rock on Sunday.
New hires with Gainesville Fire Rescue continued participating in drills on Wednesday afternoon. They will graduate from their training today and become probationary firefighters.
Dance Alive National Ballet performed “Robin Hood” at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts this weekend. The ballet was choreographed by Kim Tuttle, the executive artistic director of the company.
Burrito Brothers Taco Co., a restaurant that over the past 40 years had become one of Gainesville’s most prized institutions, closed on Saturday. The restaurant sold about 1,500 burritos Saturday. It started turning people away at about 6:30 p.m. — after all of its food was gone.
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