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With only three minutes for each public comment, 16 Gainesville community members, including those a part of the Jewish Voice for Peace organization, urged city commissioners to adopt a resolution in support of an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.
UF has gained new administrators straight from Ben Sasse’s dreams and our nightmares. They include Raymond Sass and James Wegmann, vice president of innovation and partnerships and vice president for communications, respectively.
Andrew Scholberg has been arrested 13 times. But that doesn’t deter the 71-year-old freelance writer and pro-life activist from continuing the work he’s been doing for almost 50 years — standing outside abortion clinics to pray and offer alternatives to women entering the building.
Worthington Springs was the first to go. Floridians and tourists flocked to the town starting in the late 1800s to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday. Yet by the mid-twentieth century, Worthington Spring had stopped flowing due to human activity. People stopped visiting, and the spring was abandoned.
Law enforcement recruitment is the top priority for Alachua County’s newest sheriff.
In a 4-3 vote Thursday, the City Commission decided to officially ban the public consumption and possession of alcohol and create an entertainment district — designated spaces for public drinking in Downtown Gainesville and Grove Street.
In an ordinary garage, one would hardly expect to find racks of lacey lingerie slips, distressed denim jeans or sleek black leather jackets. However, for one Gainesville business owner, vintage fashion consumes almost every corner of his home.
The Gainesville City Commission voted 6-1 Oct. 19 to approve The Knot Climbing Gym’s proposal to redevelop the old RTS Administration and Maintenance facility to the south of Depot Park.
Florida’s springs are a part of what make this state so unique. For many students in the Gainesville area, names like Ichetucknee and Santa Fe river are associated with circular tubes and moseying down one of Florida’s natural gifts.
When Emily Westerholm visited the Alachua County Jail Oct. 1, she said the air felt like Christmas Eve. Inmates were excitedly awaiting the implementation of the county’s ordinance — allowing free and unlimited jail phone calls meant to go into effect that day. The excitement, however, didn't last long.
There’s no shortage of deer in Jack Patton’s home. Taxidermy mounts adorn just about every wall, antlers hang from drying racks in his studio and decapitated heads wrapped in trash bags fill the freezers.
Bringing a fiery passion and fierce drive for justice within the Gainesville City Commission, Reina Saco, a 33-year-old city commissioner, carries many identities — notably, her first-generation Cuban background.
With a community plagued by doubt, Guatemalan immigrant Adriana Menendez is buried by countless calls from Hispanic immigrants to the Project SALUD referral line about a new immigration law.
Alachua County holds 606 short-term rental units. Or, in The Magnolia Plantation owner Cindy Montalto’s words, “You can’t swing a dead cat in Gainesville without hitting an Airbnb.”
Larry Williams has spent most of his life in and out of a cow pen.
The Gainesville City Commission requested a special Senate meeting with UF’s Student Government Sept. 19 to discuss transportation and traffic safety concerns as well as student housing and sustainability issues.
The City Commission voted 4-3 Thursday to reinstate the open-container alcohol ordinance, which prohibits public consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Sitting directly next to Student Recreation and Fitness Center at 244 Fletcher Drive, a new dining hall on UF property might just become the go-to for post-workout grub as students and staff scurry to the nearest spot to satisfy their hunger.
Since its opening 50 years ago, the Hippodrome Theatre has become an integral part of the Gainesville artistic community. What once was a small mail processing room nestled in a post office decades ago has become a fully renovated and functioning cinema at the Hippodrome Theatre for the first time in about 45 years.
Stormwater Management has installed 4,600 feet of permanent piping and four permanent pumps which have helped alleviate flooding in “legacy flooding” areas. These areas were built prior to stormwater regulations; there are nine total in Alachua County.
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