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Ron Hamer, 64, enjoys chicken noodle soup at St. Francis House in downtown Gainesville, which provides cold night services for the homeless. Hamer dropped out of high school in 11th grade and went to work for a local Birmingham radio station, WZZK. When his mother died in 1996, he lost her house and found himself living on the streets.
Ron Hamer, 64, enjoys chicken noodle soup at St. Francis House in downtown Gainesville, which provides cold night services for the homeless. Hamer dropped out of high school in 11th grade and went to work for a local Birmingham radio station, WZZK. When his mother died in 1996, he lost her house and found himself living on the streets.
I’ll just go ahead and say it. The Student Body president’s latest column Wednesday seemed pretty impressive (albeit bland).
I hope you Gators all had a great Thanksgiving holiday with your friends and family! I am writing to you today with some updates on what your Student Government has been up to lately. I’ll touch on some new initiatives we’ve been working on as well as a summary of what else SG has accomplished so far this year.
As an advertising major in a telecommunication classroom, Alexandra Olson was inspired by her professor to make a switch when he talked about the importance of telecommunications in culture.
Rescue shelters and organizations in Alachua County are preparing to accommodate about 8,000 displaced greyhounds over the next two years.
End of an Era: Muschamp’s last players graduating
Russell Houston Hull came out of his foxhole when the cannons stopped firing.
The results of three high-profile Florida races shifted by .01 percent in Alachua County after the Supervisor of Elections office finished its machine recount Monday morning.
As three key Florida state races are up for a recount, the Alachua County Supervisor of Elections office is gearing up to spend up to 54 hours recounting votes.
Teresa Sellos, a 23-year-old computer science senior, and Stephanie Birch, the African American Studies Librarian, direct students before they begin the Trick or Treat event at Library West on Wednesday afternoon. Students were met at the entrance of the library and given a flier giving locations on where trick of treat stations were located and bags to collect candy. After all stations were complete, students were able to return their flier to the circulation desk to be entered for a prize.
UF librarians dressed as witches and warlocks gave out 1,500 pieces of candy — and some knowledge — in two hours.
Lauren Cohen remembers seeing police officers stationed outside of her temple since she was young.
Tony Weinbender has two great loves: music and Gainesville. Seventeen years ago he lost $500 trying to combine those, but in doing so, he created an event that became a city staple and a community that never stops coming back for more.
A man was accused of chasing after a homeless man with a knife Wednesday afternoon.
Taking too long at a gas pump could’ve ended in gunshots.
The fight to get early voting on Florida campuses lasted longer than Megan Newsome’s undergraduate career.
A Gainesville barbershop co-owner was one of seven men arrested during a child sex sting operation in Volusia County.
Joseph Glover had a voice that captivated the room.
You are the envy of the entire lecture hall. Among hundreds of frantic faces bubbling silently with No. 2 pencil, you are the first to make a loud and disruptive rustling of paper as you flip to page 2 of the midterm exam. You breeze through it now, but a few hours ago you were practically shaking with fear. You had not been to class all semester. Three nights before, you sat yourself down in the library with a cup of coffee and started to read. You flipped through a phone book-sized chunk of your textbook, highlighting, making concept charts and doing the practice problems. You ignored Snapchat. You shunned text messages. You slipped emails, dodged phone calls and ducked under Canvas notifications for the next two days. It seems you snatched victory from the jaws of unpreparedness and laziness. Who needs lectures anyway?
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