Story Time on the Green, a library program in Alachua County for families to bring their children, will continue until early October.
Gainesville residents experienced heavy downpour and damages in their communities in the aftermath of tropical storm Elsa.
The Florida Department of Health will no longer release COVID-19 statistics daily, switching to reporting COVID-19 cases and vaccinations on a weekly basis. The number of fatalities will also no longer be provided.
Parking accessibility for RVs and tiny houses could expand as Alachua County commissioners consider amending rules for RVs and tiny homes.
DeSantis approved funding for a sports complex and vetoed two projects that would have funded transportation and medical resources to vulnerable Gainesville residents.
Students from Gainesville and Duhok, Iraq, worked together on an art submission through a virtual exchange program.
In Alachua County, panic buying caused a gas shortage. Though county officials said the fears are unfounded, consumers continued to hoard gasoline and drive up demand.
Gov. DeSantis signed an executive order invalidating local emergency COVID-19 orders requiring masks and social distancing around the state, but Alachua County will not be affected by the change.
Beginning this summer, masks will be optional indoors on ACPS campuses as well, ACPS Director of Communications Jackie Johnson said. The county will also no longer require temperature checks, but social distancing will still be enforced.
Available online and in person, the exhibit features Alachua County women diverse in age, background, education, lifetime and accomplishments.
It can assist eligible households, specifically those below the 80% median income, with the payment of late rent and utilities, or pay the rent in advance.
A 47-year-old man was killed in a crash in Alachua around midnight Thursday after being hit by a car.
The event featured shows where children ages 8 to 18 presented animals they raised.
Commissioners believe there are a number of immediate changes that can be made to stretches of the state highway inside the city, such as lowering the speed limit, equipping sidewalks with better lighting and increasing traffic enforcement. In order to move forward with some of these changes, the commission is wrestling for control over the road with the Florida Department of Transportation.
If residents successfully secede, Springs would form the first new Florida county in almost 100 years. The last time it happened was in 1925, when Gilchrist County split from Alachua.
The Alachua County Commission voted unanimously at a meeting Tuesday to accept the rent relief funds, which will help county residents who have been financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic or are at risk of homelessness.
Even though President Biden extended the moratorium through March, some renters are still struggling to understand and make use of the federal rent relief.
Since June 2018, County Commission Chair Charles Chestnut has led a county-wide effort to recall Alachua County’s legacy of racial violence with Truth and Reconciliation. Heading into the first few months of 2021, Alachua County is prepared to continue hosting commemorative events to remember victims and continue to reconcile with stories like Jim Dennis’.
After the first week of spring classes, 144 ACPS students and staff were in quarantine. These cases have been attributed to recreational activities and gatherings, not campus spread.
Two adolescents were shot and killed Saturday evening in what ACSO believes to be a murder-suicide. A woman was also shot and transported to the hospital with critical injuries.
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