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Gainesville is associated almost exclusively with all things UF — especially for new students from pockets of Florida and across the country who wouldn’t be able to point to where Gainesville is on a map.
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Gainesville is associated almost exclusively with all things UF — especially for new students from pockets of Florida and across the country who wouldn’t be able to point to where Gainesville is on a map.
All Alachua County Public Schools employees, visitors, vendors and volunteers are now required to wear masks inside all schools and district facilities, regardless of vaccination status. All students will also be required to wear masks when they return to school Aug. 10.
After emerging from about two weeks of recess, the Gainesville City Commission met July 12 for a special city commission meeting where Malisa McCreedy, the city’s director of transportation and mobility, gave a presentation on proposed changes to parking zones and rates.
While new freshmen settled into their second weekend in Gainesville and upperclassmen slept in after long nights of blazing through bars, three tubes with plants cultivated by researchers at UF hurdled through the sky and into the solar system.
A 13-year-old boy is dead after being shot during a party at the Gainesville American Legion on June 24.
An apartment complex at 2220 SW 34th St. caught fire early Wednesday morning.
Alachua County Public Schools had 40 students and faculty members in quarantine as of Tuesday evening — a decrease of 45 cases since June 8, according to the school district’s COVID-19 dashboard.
After more than nine and half months, Alachua County Public Schools students and teachers will complete an entire school year amid the COVID-19 pandemic Wednesday.
Alachua County Public Schools had 85 students and faculty members in quarantine as of Tuesday evening — an increase of about 15 cases since June 1, according to the school district’s COVID-19 dashboard.
Nathan Heastie zig-zags through traffic on his electric skateboard Tuesday evenings, just minutes away from hours of rock climbing.
Six-year-old Mariana Altomare was too young to have any vivid memories of her father’s battle with lung cancer.
Alachua County Public Schools had 53 students and faculty members in quarantine as of Tuesday evening — a decrease of about 30 cases since May 18, according to the school district’s COVID-19 dashboard.
Alachua County Public Schools had 138 students and faculty in quarantine as of Tuesday night — a decrease of about 20 since April 21, according to the school district’s COVID-19 dashboard.
The prospect of moving away to college is frightening for many reasons, but one is shared among most college students: learning to cook.
A Tolbert Area resident has enjoyed the luxury of a cozy bed, an abundance of food, constant attention and plenty of time to bask in the sun free of charge for at least three years.
Harsh ceiling lights illuminated a room in a Melbourne rehabilitation center. Bryanne Parks fought through bleary eyes and extreme pain throughout her body. It was 4 a.m., but she had to stay awake to have her blood drawn and receive a shot.
In September 1925, Lassie Goodbread-Black stood patiently behind a block-long line of boys waiting to register for Fall classes at UF. But when she finally made her way to the registrar, he refused to help her.
Three conservative UF student groups are under temporary suspension after violating university COVID-19 guidelines and failing to register for an on-campus event, the university announced in a statement Sunday.
An alarm blared at 4:45 a.m. in Oulu, Finland, jolting Meri Karioja to wake up for a proctored physics exam in 15 minutes.
After weeks of protest, UF announced Tuesday that it will not move forward with a plan to use the McCarty Woods conservation area as a construction site.