Gainesville is a place where odd niches can proliferate. Take Arena Baggage, a home business run by UF senior Mike Arena. He supplies the local market's need for custom messenger bags.
Forget football, this weekend Gainesville is a softball town.
You know those times when you clean your room and you proudly pronounce to your parents that you're done?
The results are in.
This season, models marched down runways blinding onlookers. The pages of May's In Style magazine look more like colors found in a candy shop, and even Forever 21's latest frocks are inspired by Vitamin C. It's official, girls, summer is here, and as Posh Spice might say: Bold colors are going to be major.
It would have been easy for UF to come out flat in their last nonconference game of the season.
UF's Board of Trustees approved President Bernie Machen's plans to shrink the university's budget by $47 million on Wednesday morning, resulting in about 130 layoffs.
Erik Corace had been here before.
Developers and real estate agents of the stalled University Corners development are refunding deposit checks to about 105 people who reserved units.The project, which is planned for the northwest corner of 13th Street and West University Avenue, has remained an empty lot since April 2007.University Corners had been depending on money from a Gainesville tax-incentive program. However, a September 2007 Florida Supreme Court case decided Florida cities are not allowed to reimburse property tax money over more than a year without a voter referendum. "We were in the last phases of finalizing the $37 million in CRA funds pledged by the city when the Court ruling halted negotiations," read the refund letter from University Development of Gainesville. The decision to redesign the development will not be made until the Florida Supreme Court rules on an appeal, said Henry Rabell, a broker associate for Bosshardt Realty. The eight-story development would include more than 400 luxury condos and condo-hotels, as well as about 70,000 square feet of retail space.
UF freshman defensive lineman Matt Patchan was shot in the shoulder Friday night at a park around Tampa.
The dean of UF's College of Medicine has apologized for divisive comments he made after his decision to overrule the admissions committee became public more than a month ago.
Shands HealthCare was named one of five winners of the 2008 Governor's Sterling Award earlier this month.
To meet its share of a $47 million budget cut, UF's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will reduce its foreign language offerings, lay off more than 30 faculty and staff and eliminate three Ph.D. programs.
Norman Chang, 4LS
UF President Bernie Machen announced long-awaited and already controversial plans to slash the university¿s budget by $47 million to cope with state revenue shortfalls last week.
Florida's Board of Governors will continue to preside over the state's 11 public universities in its current structure despite a surge of support for a plan aiming to establish a new system with a limited board.
For 25 years, Gainesville has been trying to clean up industrial contamination at the Cabot Carbon/Koppers Superfund Site.
The air was hot, the sun was bright, and the sweet smell of frying zucchini swept through the pine trees like a cool breeze on a muggy southern day.
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