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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

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Annual Pride Festival to celebrate equality

The annual Gainesville Pride Festival will take place from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. At noon, a parade will start at Wild Iris Books, 802 W. University Ave. For an hour, marchers and floats will trickle down University Avenue. By 1 p.m., the parade will flood into Bo Diddley Community Plaza.


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Campus ministry front door shattered

The majority of the United Methodist campus ministry was upstairs worshipping when the left door of the first-floor entryway had a quarter-inch hole punched into its upper right corner, leaving a web of cracks across the pane.


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Tracy Morgan to join Gator Growl as comedian

The Growl, billed as the largest student-run pep rally in the world, will be at 7 p.m. Nov. 9 at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. The theme of the 89th Gator Growl is “United We Growl,” according to a news release.


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Gainesville residents leave all kinds of things on the bus

Chandlee, a 22-year-old mechanical engineering fifth-year, was coming home from 101 Cantina late one Friday night. Her friends got back on the bus and searched for the key, but they couldn’t find it. The night ended with a call to an emergency locksmith at 3 a.m. to open Chandlee’s apartment.


U.S. pizza restaurants are doing better than last year in sales and are expected to reach $36.1 billion by the end of the year.
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Pizza restaurants enjoying national growth

Sales at pizza restaurants nationwide will reach $36.1 billion at the end of 2012, which is up 3.8 percent from 2011, according to a study released on Sept. 17 by Packaged Facts, a market research company for consumer goods.



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