City manager Lee Feldman submitted his letter of resignation Sept. 13, and his last day in city hall will be Nov. 12. The Gainesville City Commission also discussed terminating Gainesville Regional Utilities general manager Ed Bielarski at the Sept. 13 meeting, but he will be keeping his job.
A crowd of more than 200 mostly maskless Gainesville city employees and their families donning “Make America Great Again” hats and shirts attended the event in support of a lawsuit attempting to reverse Gainesville’s vaccine mandate for city employees.
The Alachua County Commission announced its Plant of the Month Program Sept. 1 in a county newsletter. It aims to bring community members together and encourage county residents to grow their own food for their benefit. Alachua County Commissioner Mary Alford partnered with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and Working Food, a local nonprofit, to plan her idea.
There are 13 fewer positive total cases since last week, a decrease of about 31%. There were thirteen less student cases and three less positive employee cases, a decrease of 60%.
Dr. Ron Berry is the director of the University of Florida Student Health Care Center.
The life of former Seminole middle blocker Brianna Barry, who also helped at Florida summer volleyball camps, will be remembered before Wednesday night’s match between rivals Florida and Florida State.
The Florida women’s golf team finished its first tournament in third place this week, competing at the Cougar Classic against some familiar foes like Georgia, Baylor, Arkansas and Central Florida.
A Buchholz High School student was arrested by Alachua County Sheriff deputies Monday in connection with false bomb threats. The student could be charged with a second-degree felony with the potential to pay fines up to $10,000, Behl said.
Defensive coordinator Todd Grantham and players Mohamoud Diabate and Daquan Newkirk broke down the matchup with No. 1 Crimson Tide Monday evening.
“We want to play with the best and compete with the best,” edge rusher Zachary Carter told the media Monday afternoon.
The newest ranking makes UF the first university in the state to ever be in the top five ranking of colleges. Now, UF is tied for fifth with University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and UC Santa Barbara.
With flags raised high and heads bowed low, demonstrators arrived at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Saturday in remembrance of the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001.
Roughly 50 members of the Gainesville community came together at Reserve Park Sept. 11 and recognized those who were forever impacted by the day of Sept. 11, 2001, and the effects on our country thereafter.
Buchholz is the largest public school in Alachua County, with more than 2,200 students. The string of recent false bomb threats at the school has led to work disruption, missed class time and curriculum setbacks for the thousands of students, teachers and parents involved.
Connected Gainesville advocates for accessible and high-speed internet for the community through publicly-owned internet to solve the digital divide — the gap between those with and without reliable technology and internet.
Dr. Mona Ashour is a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Santa Fe College, teaching Santa Feu2019s African humanities class as well as its world religions class. And she will stay in Gainesville for the academic year.
Both Fuchs and Broadie wrote they will continue to strongly encourage faculty, staff and students to wear masks indoors on campus.
The Gainesville City Commission will decide whether to terminate City Manager Lee Feldman at a meeting Thursday. Mayor Lauren Poe also asked Gainesville Regional Utilities General Manager Ed Bielarski to resign Friday.
Currently in planning, Imagine GNV is a state-mandated plan meant to reinvent the city over the next 10 years. The plan aims to guide the city on how it spends public funds and determine guidelines for residential areas, schools, cultural centers and infrastructure.
With Alabama on the horizon, the Gators’ quarterbacks remain a contentious topic amongst the Florida fanbase.
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