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Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you• Mainstreet Daily News: Alachua County joins lawsuit…
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A crushed Pepsi can, damp cigarette butts, a rusted tire wheel buried deep in soggy mulch. They’re part of the debris collected after a day’s work for Current Problems, an Alachua County-based waterway cleanup organization. By the end of the year, the junk-filled bags Current Problems hauls away at cleanups will reach a milestone: 1 million pounds of total trash collected.
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WUFT and the Gainesville Sun have partnered to host the event between the two Gainesville candidates.
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A bottle cap mural is set to be unveiled during a City Commissioner meeting on Oct. 20 from 5:15 p.m. to 7 p.m. The mural is a piece done by #UNLITTER at…
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Gainesville's zero-waste initiative reduces single-use plastic accessories like forks and ketchup in restaurants. It also requires apartment complexes to collect discarded but usable furniture and donate them. And it creates an expanded food network to redirect food that is past its sell-by date to Gainesville food pantries.
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Sandbag information is subject to change based on a multitude of factors including restricted hours and component availability. While we will do our best…
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Voters this fall will be asked to consider a $300 bond issue to help fund the fixes.
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The number is scheduled to launch later this month.
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The county has five rural collection centers: Alachua/High Springs Collection Center on Northwest U.S. Highway 441, Archer Collection Center on Southwest Archer Road, Fairbanks Collection Center on Northeast Waldo Road, North Central Collection Center on Northeast State Road 121 and Phifer Collection Center on Southeast Hawthorne Road.