The new nature center at Hogtown Creek Headwaters Nature Park opens to the public Friday.

Gainesville received half of its federal stimulus funds in July of last year and expects to receive the remaining funds by July.

Anastasiia Zaitseva, an international business student at the University of Florida is from a small town in east Ukraine. Since Russia’s invasion of her home country, she has been afraid for her friends and family back home. Zaitseva said she texts her friends in Kyiv daily.