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As part of Gators Experience 2025, four Florida gymnasts shared their knowledge with children in the Dominican Republic and learnt something new themselves.
Florida’s only wild bison roam the savanna of Paynes Prairie State Park, but a proposed housing development has environmental scientists concerned for the future of the park’s endangered species.
Cars packed the bright green manicured lawn outside the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center. Inside, guests bumped elbows at more than 10 tables set up in the main hall of the historic building. They hugged the walls while a preacher’s voice carried throughout the room on the stereos.Tables were called up, and breakfast was served on styrofoam plates to hungry guests. Though the event was scheduled from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., performances and speeches extended the program by an hour, wrapping up around 10 a.m.
Crowds gather at the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center to celebrate Juneteenth on Thursday, June 19, 2025.
Gainesville art enthusiasts gathered at the Harn Museum of Art Saturday afternoon to create, dance, eat and connect during its free “Silver Linings” Community Day.
How do you please the indecisive, the reckless, the ambitious and the ever changing and diverse population of Gainesville?
In the beating Florida heat, community members and attendees visiting the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center, kicking off the Florida Emancipation Celebration on May 24.
Gainesville began its “Journey to Juneteenth” event series on Tuesday with a flag-raising ceremony, marking the first event in a month-long program celebrating Black history.
Correction: This story has been updated to reflect Terrence Ho's proper title.
The carpet where the adorned fight in resistance
A previous version of this story identified HLSA as the Hispanic Student Association. It has since been changed to reflect the correct title.
Over 30 students, parents and residents gathered at the Matheson Museum Tuesday calling for formal protocols limiting law enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement interactions with students in Alachua County Public Schools.
A previous version of this story misspelled the name of Jon Whiten. It has since been changed to reflect the correct spelling.
Vision, Change, and Watch Party have laid out their plans for tackling food insecurity, establishing elections and supporting minority groups and initiatives on campus. On Tuesday and Wednesday, students will cast their ballots to decide which party they want to be in control of the next year of policy decisions.
A gaggle of teenage boys stampeded through the woods in 1984. It was just beyond 15-year-old Johnell Gainey’s new home in Southeast Gainesville — a paradise for childhood imagination, for slingshots and BB guns and exploring in the summer heat.
For most of the year, the Forster’s tern lives on the coast. But on an afternoon in the middle of February, the sleek, black-capped bird could be seen at Depot Park’s pond in downtown Gainesville.
Around 50 members of the Gainesville community gathered on Sunday to witness the exhibit introduced as“A Seat at the Table: Food, Poetry and Art,” at the A. Quinn Jones Museum.
Coffee, walks and an office across the hall were enough to spark something between Teresa Cornacchione and David Macdonald.
Local songwriter Eric Tappert performs at Lightnin’ Salvage Enterprises’ open mic night on the first Wednesday of every month. While he’s played at other venues, Tappert keeps coming back for Lightnin’ Salvage.
Update: Part of Museum Road between Gale Lemerand Drive and UF’s Reitz Union remains closed as of Saturday morning. The water leak was caused by a reclaimed water pipe rupture, according to an alert from UF Public Safety.
Solutions by The State News
