The Gainesville Opportunity Center focuses on helping adults with severe mental illness. They are known there as members – and are preparing to more readily reenter the workforce.
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With quaking voices and gripping handfuls of paper on the Bo Diddley Plaza stage in Gainesville, Jami Claire and Teresa Mercado slowly recited the names of 356 transgender people whose lives were lost to violence in the past year.
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Each year on Nov. 20, groups like Unspoken Treasure honor transgender people killed in acts of anti-transgender violence. The society along with TranQuility, the Pride Community Center and other local LGBTQ groups will hold a vigil at 7 p.m. at Bo Diddley Plaza.
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After years of campaigning internationally for greater access to education for girls, Malala Yousafzai took her final classes at Oxford University like other students everywhere – on Zoom. A Pakistani who in 2014 became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, at age 17, Yousafzai these days has moved from fighting with …
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The Marion County Board of Commissioners in September had approved a contract that gave $65,000 to IES. On Tuesday, the board added an extra $277,524 — over four times the original amount.
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Teachers scolded Hurley for playing in the creeks and parents doubted anything would come of hunting for fossils.
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The Global Medical Brigades suspended all foreign trips due to the COVID-19 pandemic, causing the UF chapter to cancel its 2020 trip to Honduras.
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Stanley Richardson, the Alachua County poet laureate, choked over the words Thursday evening as he read from one of his new poems, “8 Minutes and 46 Seconds”:
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A local food blogger designs custom T-shirts to support the Bread of the Mighty Food Bank serving Gainesville and surrounding counties.
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Nikic’s dedication to get 1% better every day has helped him on his historic mission, and this achievement is just his first step of many more to come beyond the finish line.
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