Alachua Harvest Festival hosted during Homecoming weekend
By Jerry Bruno | Oct. 14, 2010After a weekend packed with Homecoming celebrations, Gators can wind down with a seasonal festival in downtown Alachua.
After a weekend packed with Homecoming celebrations, Gators can wind down with a seasonal festival in downtown Alachua.
Officials from UF, Orlando Health and Shands HealthCare announced today that they plan to collaborate on new health initiatives that will increase accessibility to care for patients over a 20-county region and expand training opportunities for physicians.
For nearly three years, the unfinished Stadium Club luxury condo and retail project has cast its shadow on University Avenue, directly across from Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. But now, the building’s future is in the hands of a new owner.
The slammer’s going green.
Jen Ambrose Cotter uses her blog, “Bipartisan Victory Garden,” to bring attention to Cabot-Koppers, the wood-treatment facility that has been listed by the federal government as a contaminated Superfund site for more than 25 years.
A Gainesville man chewed himself into a hole Tuesday when, instead of stopping right away for police, he drove two blocks while swallowing a stash of marijuana.
Students for a Democratic Society is rallying today in support of fair wages for Immokalee workers at the grand opening of the new Publix Supermarket in Millhopper Plaza.
Spectators at Friday’s homecoming parade will notice new recycling bins along the parade route.
A Gainesville man chewed himself into a hole Tuesday when, instead of stopping right away for police, he drove two blocks while swallowing a stash of marijuana.
Jen Ambrose Cotter uses her blog, “Bipartisan Victory Garden,” to bring attention to Cabot-Koppers, the wood-treatment facility that has been listed by the federal government as a contaminated Superfund site for more than 25 years.
Jared Chasse, 12, wants to be an oceanographer when he grows up, and the City of Gainesville is offering to help pay for him to reach that goal.
Stadium Club, the partially constructed luxury condominium building on University Avenue across from Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, will be auctioned today.
UF researchers can now get up close and personal with shallow-water sharks.
While budget reform, immigration and health care have dominated this election season, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink brought attention to education issues Monday.
Prosecutors say the murder of Wayne “Frog” Hutchinson went down in an overcrowded house in Hawthorne — an eruption of violence and the bloody work of two screwdriver-wielding criminals.
Gainesville Police are investigating the recent kidnapping and rape of a local woman after she reported the incident herself Sunday night.
Gay and straight students will celebrate their sexuality with rainbow cupcakes and a competitive “Fruit Bowl” in recognition of National Coming Out Day.
With just 400 square feet, there isn’t a lot of space in The Lunchbox, a small restaurant in the Bo Diddley Community Plaza.
At about 1:20 a.m. Saturday a woman was hit by an RTS bus between University Avenue and NW 18th Street.
More than 630 meals were served for free to Gainesville’s homeless Thursday morning as part of the 12th annual Breakfast on the Plaza and Homeless Services Fair.