The city of Waldo welcomed locals to its newly renovated, 8100 square-foot branch library Saturday. The former Dollar General building was purchased four years ago and converted to replace the city's 23-year-old library.
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The program this month began using a $10,000 grant from the American Library Association that would help it expand and offer tutoring services to more people.
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The Alachua County Library District has put aside a 5,000 square-foot space for the new Waldo library. Residents will have access to study rooms, meeting rooms and even art exhibits in the new library.
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At Alachua County libraries a person with no library card can use the computer for only two hours.
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In the recent years Sweetwater Branch Creek along University Avenue and 4th Avenue has become a forgotten park and littered waterway. Now volunteers are trying to clean up the creek that flows through the downtown area of Gainesville, located between the Matheson History Museum Complex and the Alachua County Library District Headquarters.
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When compared against itself, Alachua County has seen a reduction in child abuse rates by almost half over roughly the past decade.
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Therapy dog reading programs have become more popular in recent years throughout Alachua County, especially in county libraries. Today, five of them have such programs.
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After more than 20 years, the Waldo library will be expanding and moving to a new location next year.
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Internet options across Alachua County are numerous, but spotty service, high prices and limited reach of some have created frustrations among many residents. Read a list of the most commonly used services, their prices and reflections from customers at WUFT.org.
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Williams says, “…Hollywood deals in sensationalism … although ARGO I think actually comes really close to being very realistic, but a lot of it is sensationalized. You know, I’ve always described being an intelligence officer in the field as being 75 percent pretty normal, 20 percent scary, and five percent just really scary.”
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