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Nine years in the making, Mike Barcia's ‘96 dual-exhaust Chevy big block chassis named No Compromise is one of the many vehicles on display at the Slamfest Car and Truck Show at the Alachua County Fairgrounds on Sunday. This year was the 20th anniversary of the show and featured many kinds of vehicles, including imports, classics and hot rods.
Gainesville and Newberry officials are trying to persuade the Alachua County Commission to put the Alachua County Fairgrounds in their respective stomping grounds.
The Alachua County Commission has once again opted to postpone the decision to move county fairgrounds from its current location in east Gainesville to Newberry.
Tiësto will bring his Club Life College Invasion Tour to the Alachua County Fairgrounds Sept. 26.
He was voted No. 1 disc jockey in the world, and on Monday, Tiësto will hit up Gainesville in a performance at the Alachua County Fairgrounds from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.
After a year's hiatus, the fair is back in town.
Liam Clewlow, guitarist for Enter Shikari, stands on the shoulders of bassist Chris Batten during the band’s set in Orlando at the Central Florida Fairgrounds. Enter Shikari recently signed to its first American label, Hopeless Records, and is releasing a new album later this year.
It’s 6 a.m., and Rooster Roberts is first to rise.
The Alachua County Fairgrounds may house offices instead of medieval fairs.
The Alachua County Fairgrounds may not host medieval fairs and other events in the future, but don’t worry. A new fairgrounds will take its place.
The smell of smoked turkey legs and sweet frying funnel cake wafted over gypsies with jingling skirts, young girls in Renaissance costumes and men in pirate outfits armed with half-drunken brown bottles.
Gainesville will hold its first amateur mixed martial arts cage fighting tournament Saturday at the Alachua County Fairgrounds.
For the first time in 40 years, the fair won’t come to town.
With mud underfoot, pumping fists overhead and the music of 160 bands thundering through the air, thousands of people braved rain, wind and cold weather for three days to support artists and migrant farm workers at the St. Johns County Fairgrounds.
The Alachua County Commission unanimously approved a 2-cent tourist development tax increase Tuesday evening that will affect motels, hotels, campgrounds and recreational vehicle parks in the region.
Visitors to the Alachua County Fairgrounds passed through the ticket booth and stepped back in time to the 1950s Saturday at the Billetproof Hot Rod and Custom Car Show in Gainesville.
Shawn Bauldree is a preschool teacher, but this weekend, she donned a purple gown and fairy wings, her identity further concealed by the swirled and glittery makeup around her eyes.
Walt Disney World has fairy-tale princesses and a haunted house. Now Gainesville does, too, but with a scary twist.
The line of patrons curved around the building, and families were turned away from a sold-out circus at the Alachua County Fairgrounds Friday night. However, a few unexpected guests were fine with standing on the street.
The Harsh Reality
Solutions by The State News
