City Commissioner kicks off re-election campaign
By Morgan Watkins | Jan. 26, 2011City Commissioner Thomas Hawkins wants to be your representative for another three years.
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.
Rhonda Lockwood is the northwest regional coordinator at CDS Family and Behavioral Health Services Inc., which runs an independent living program for foster care children.
The final countdown has begun for the Gainesville Commission race.
We usually think of mentors as people whose examples we’d follow to succeed.
Officer Doug Williams walks through the grass to the tune of middle school boys shouting.
The race for District 3 City Commission is heating up as the candidates prepare to make their push toward City Hall.
Folk CDs and books about censorship and birth control stacked the shelves at the Civic Media Center sale Saturday. Customers looked through about 1,500 folk, acoustic and rock CDs, all $1 each.
In an effort to raise support for a medical clinic in Tanzania, the faith-based student organization Hope Global Mission held a concert Friday at the Baptist Collegiate Ministry.
Students looking for late-night Mexican food in Midtown on Tuesday nights may find themselves taking part in another Latin tradition.
Next time you read a police story, you probably won’t be hearing much from Lt. Steve Maynard.
Gainesville Commissioners gave
Indiana Jones gets to keep his job.
To make a change, you sometimes have to dig deep into your own pockets.