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“Gainesville is a very open community,” Katy Lemle, the association’s gallery director and operations manager, said. “The GFAA has been historically ‘white,’ we realized that, and we are taking steps to welcome artists from all different backgrounds.”

Almost one week has gone by since the Surfside condo collapse in South Florida. With many people remaining unaccounted for, local fire departments are stepping in to help out.

The eight-room Thrift Boutique is located at 5403 SW Archer Road, and welcomes shoppers and pet owners Friday through Sunday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.

For the past 13 years, Scott Camil has marked Memorial Day weekend by creating a display of temporary tombstones to honor American soldiers killed in the ongoing Afghanistan and Iraq Wars.

It’s been a career calling that came after he moved with his family from Pennsylvania to Gainesville in 1976, two years after his mother died. His father brought them to the city to live in a house inherited from their grandfather. Griner’s father died in 1977.

“The fun thing about beekeeping is it’s not an exact science,” he said. “There’s not one particular way to do it, and that’s what makes it fun."

It is clear age won’t be what stops Marvene Edwards in life – very little has. Not even AIDS.