When going from the corner of 18th Terrace and Seventh Avenue to find Bruce Baber, you can’t help but notice the signs.
As dozens of Gainesville residents, campaign volunteers and political enthusiasts poured into the United Church of Gainesville Sunday afternoon, Don Marsh silently sat at the makeshift foldaway table and slightly adjusted his campaign button.
The smell of smoked turkey legs and sweet frying funnel cake wafted over gypsies with jingling skirts, young girls in Renaissance costumes and men in pirate outfits armed with half-drunken brown bottles.
St. Francis Catholic High School hosted its fourth annual Souper Fun Sunday event at the high school’s gymnasium, 4100 NW 115 Terrace.
UF junior Garrett Kramer wasn’t playing to win any of the grand prizes. He felt like a winner because he gave the shirt off his back to charity – and then some.
Fresh off an election cycle, Alachua County Commissioner Susan Baird is not hesitant about stepping into the world of campaigning.
The Alachua County School District had found its champion speller — a home-schooled 12-year-old.
For locals struggling with thoughts of suicide, the Alachua County Crisis Center offers high-quality services and the help of more than 100 pairs of helping hands.
In those bleary-eyed minutes between 8:49 and 8:53 a.m., there was just an eerie calm. When I look back on it, I want to say I knew. I knew that those voices yelling outside were firemen’s, and my building was on fire; I knew that I grabbed all my belongings, including my cat, and heroically ran outside to help. It didn’t happen like that.
Gainesville Police Department may be eliminated and put under the control of the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office. Mayor Craig Lowe and the Gainesville Commission want to keep GPD and are asking citizens to help save it.
A man already on probation for child neglect was arrested by Gainesville Police on Wednesday on a charge of killing his baby by rolling onto him in his sleep.
Choosing a drink to complement your lunch just got a lot harder at Firehouse Subs.
City Commissioner Thomas Hawkins wants to be your representative for another three years.
About 30 protesters stood outside the Hippodrome Theatre on Tuesday to voice their displeasure for the city’s treatment of homeless people as Mayor Craig Lowe gave his State of the City address.
After a year marked by new innovations, budget cuts, hot-button issues and a national standoff between the city and a controversial local church, Gainesville has much to look forward to in the upcoming year, Mayor Craig Lowe said in his address Tuesday.
The Alachua County Commission is frustrated about the Cabot-Koffers Superfund site clean up, so it may take its case to the nation’s capital.
You don’t have to travel halfway around the world to experience authentic European culture. In fact, you don’t even have to leave Gainesville.
The blues are back.
Although Gainesville was ranked as the fifth-meanest city toward the homeless in the U.S. in 2008, developments on the City of Gainesville/Alachua County 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness are taking steps in a positive direction.
The UF Police Department has been named as one of six institutions that will serve as a national mentor to other police organizations in responding to mental health situations.
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