The nation’s largest homebuilder has proposed plans to build townhomes on a property bordering an abandoned Clay County mining facility with a history of chemical contamination. The Russell Road Land Trust is the new owner of the 78 acres sandwiched between the mining site, owned by Stoneridge Farms, and Russell …
Read More »Clay County Commissioner Kristen Burke offers her voice to Russell Landing contamination concerns
GREEN COVE SPRINGS — Eighteen years ago, on their way to church on Sunday mornings, Kristen Burke and her husband would go out of their way to drive through a neighborhood called Russell Landing to admire the houses perched on rolling green lawns. Located about 50 miles northeast of Gainesville …
Read More »Meet the woman cooking free meals every week for downtown Gainesville residents
The Puerto Rico native cooks about 60 meals every week in her tiny apartment kitchen with ingredients she either buys herself or she gets from the Free Grocery Store on days it has a surplus of produce.
Read More »Downtown art gallery hosts psychedelic exhibition
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – As night fell Friday on University Avenue artists and patrons gathered in the neon oasis of The SL8 Gallery in downtown Gainesville. Artist in residence, Dale Fours, 23, wandered around in the black light, orange T-shirt glowing, as people arrived at the exhibition called The 444 Collective …
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