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The state had its first two deaths from the virus this weekend.
Read More »The Point, March 5, 2020: New Gainesville Organizing Effort Aims To Help Ex-Inmates
Community Spring is the grassroots group's name.
Read More »The Point, March 3, 2020: Florida’s Confirmed Coronavirus Cases, How To Help Stop Its Spread, And About Those Bats
UF students in Italy also had to return to the U.S. and be quarantined.
Read More »Gainesville Votes 2020: City Commission District 3 Guide
Those who live in the city's District 3 will decide between incumbent David Arreola and challenger Jennifer Reid.
Read More »Pigs And Paint Raise $1,000 For Sanctuary Farm In Newberry
Painting with a Pig, an event that local fundraising group Painting with a Pit hosted on Sunday, raised over $1,000 for Peacefield Farm Sanctuary.
Read More »The Point, Feb. 28, 2020: Alachua County Public Schools Work To Improve Chronic Absenteeism Rate
The chronically absent rate in the same school year in Alachua County was 11.6%, a third of a percentage point higher than the state average.
Read More »The Point, Feb. 26, 2020: Gainesville Airbnb Hosts Are Starting To Pay County Taxes — Just Like Bed And Breakfast And Hotel Owners
It remains to be decided which school Robert Cecil, an English teacher from Buchholz High School, will be transferred to as part of his punishment for using a racial slur in his classroom.
Read More »The Point, Feb. 24, 2020: Florida Legislature Works To Ban Shark Fin Sales
One of the bills' sponsors said Florida should have no part in the fin industry.
Read More »The Point, Feb. 20, 2020: U.S. Court Of Appeals Finds Unconstitutional Florida’s ‘Fines And Fees’ Voting Limitation
The decision still leaves it unclear who among Florida’s felons will be allowed to vote in this year’s presidential election.
Read More »New Gator Mural Graces Wall At Butler Plaza
Leon Keer is a Dutch pop-surrealist artist and a leader in anamorphic art and created the gator mural.
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