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Thornebrook Gallery celebrates 30th anniversary
By Emily Morrow | Aug. 30, 2011If you're a customer of the Thornebrook Gallery, Tricia Fisher probably knows you.
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Grooveshark creators seek to help young entrepreneurs
By Meredith Rutland | Aug. 29, 2011It's not easy starting a business. Josh Greenberg and Sam Tarantino remember when they created Grooveshark, which now boasts about 15 million users in North America alone. They started in 2006, working on improvised desks of cardboard boxes.
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Ward's Supermarket turns 60 next month
By Erin Jester | Aug. 29, 2011When J.D. and Ila Jean Ward opened their roadside fruit stand in 1951, Northwest Sixth Street was an unpaved, two-lane road that marked Gainesville's city limit.
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Cyber security tournament set to start next month
By Casey Andrew Speers | Aug. 29, 2011So you think you can hack?
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Fans urged to promote tourism
By Clare Lennon | Aug. 29, 2011Gator football fans may not need another way to prove their passion, but a Florida tourism marketing corporation is hoping fans will take another opportunity to flaunt their orange-and-blue blood anyway.
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Alligator employee robbed at gunpoint behind office
By Morgan Watkins | Aug. 29, 2011A 68-year-old employee at the Independent Florida Alligator was loading newspapers into his car at about 6 a.m. on Aug. 25 when a man robbed him at gunpoint, according to a Gainesville Police press release.
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Students party hard on first weekend back
By Emily Morrow | Aug. 28, 2011They may not all remember it, but UF students turned out in droves Friday night to celebrate the end of the first week of school and the promise of many more weekends to come.
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Ginnie Springs busy despite weather
By Jasmine Earls | Aug. 28, 2011While Hurricane Irene surged across the East Coast this weekend, students in Gainesville took advantage of sunny blue skies at Ginnie Springs.
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Beer unaffected by power cutoff after fire
By Matt Riva | Aug. 26, 2011Swamp Head Brewery isn't big.
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Runners to get naked for 5K
By Erin Jester | Aug. 24, 2011Want to run a 5K and get a perfect tan at the same time?
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Museum celebrates world music
By Estee Beck | Aug. 24, 2011Musicians, storytellers and belly dancers will take Florida Museum of Natural History visitors on a journey through sounds and music from around the world Friday.
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Program teaches bicycle, pedestrian safety in community
By Caitlin Hartley | Aug. 24, 2011Students, new and old, should not just be focused on when and where their classes are, but more along the lines of how they will be getting there, said Dekova T. Batey, the Bicycle/Pedestrian Program Coordinator for City of Gainesville Public Works.
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Final Albertsons grocery store in Gainesville to be closed
By Estee Beck | Aug. 24, 2011The liquidation sales are scheduled to begin around Aug. 31.
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Chest Pain ER opens at Shands
By Erin Jester | Aug. 24, 2011Researchers have found a new, more effective way of testing patients who come to the emergency room with chest pain.
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City Commission votes to keep free parking downtown
By Meredith Rutland | Aug. 23, 2011When Andrew Schaer heard about the city's plan to replace free parking downtown with $1-an-hour meters, he thought of his wife and children.
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SFC has top state graduation rate
By Morgan Watkins | Aug. 23, 2011Santa Fe College took the top spot among the 28 state and community colleges in Florida for arguably the most important thing that happens in a student's college career - graduation.
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Gainesville, Miami reconnect
By Casey Andrew Speers | Aug. 23, 2011American Eagle reintroduced the second daily round-trip flight from Gainesville Regional Airport to Miami International Airport on Tuesday.
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Fire claims furniture warehouse
By Matt Riva | Aug. 22, 2011UF students could see the smoke from campus.
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Textbook stores lacking usual start-of-semester crowds
By Erin Jester | Aug. 22, 2011In the heat of the afternoon on University Avenue, the mood inside the Florida Book Store was surprisingly calm. Cashiers worked efficiently, but not too hurriedly, to get the dozen or so students gathered around the registers taken care of.
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House of Beer coming to Gainesville in early September
By Mina Radman | Aug. 22, 2011Owners say it's no place for a Natterday.
