The Alachua County Commission decided Tuesday to hire consultants to defend it when the Alachua County Sheriff Office’s roughly $500,000 budget cut appeal goes to Tallahassee.
After a long Tuesday filled with meetings, handshakes and city statutes, Craig Lowe decided to stop off for a drink after work.
Alachua County residents can find out how the county spent their tax dollars last year as the 2010 fiscal year annual report has been released by county manager Randall Reid and the Alachua County Communications Office.
Although Tuesday’s Student Senate meeting lasted less than an hour, members of the Unite Party and the Progress Party have hours of work ahead of them as elections loom.
Along State Road 121 there is a seemingly ordinary 12-acre plot of land. If you blinked, you would miss the turn into a graveled driveway that barely stands out, except for a yellow sign that reads “Monkey X-ing.”
The Constitution, ladies night and bus routes were all on the table Monday at the City Commission candidate forum on equality issues.
Traveling along downtown’s Depot Avenue will no longer be a hassle or a construction-heavy eye sore.
For Gainesville Fire Rescue employees, their jobs are about helping those in need whether they face a fire or a torrential downpour.
The debate of police consolidation is done — at least for now.
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.
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