Tag Archives: City of Gainesville

Gainesville voters braved a stormy day to go to the polls on Tuesday to elect a pair of city commissioners.

A University of Florida class project is playing a part in helping an east-side Gainesville community decide how it might best improve the  Cabot-Koppers property.

Potential rezoning would allow for single residential, multi-family residential, mixed-use development and conservation management areas on the site containing wetlands and nearly 1,200 acres of planted pines. But that rezoning may not happen anytime soon.

Once developed hubs for the citrus industry, these two communities now bear little resemblance to the agricultural centers they were in the mid-19th century. Instead, today they boast small-town values and fellowship as well as sleepy oak-canopied dirt roads.

The site of a former U.S. Army Reserve Center in northeast Gainesville is set for a renovation after sitting unused for most of the last nine years.

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.

Residents met this week to try and figure it out, as changes are coming to Duval Park and the Clarence R. Kelly Community Center.

A United States Department of Agriculture-funded project called "Fresh Wagon" provides fresh produce to Gainesville residents at a low cost.

Virginia Bruzzese, known as Nurse "Ginny" in Gainesville, is using her decades of nursing experience to help the medically underserved via the UF Mobile Outreach Clinic.