Each year, Alachua county honors different veteran groups at the annual Veterans Day celebration. This year, the program put a special emphasis on honoring those who served in World War II and the Korean War.
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On each Memorial Day since 2007, the Gainesville chapter of Veterans for Peace has placed a 12-inch ceremonial tombstone for every U.S. soldier who died in Iraq or Afghanistan.
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Each year during the Captain James B. King Veterans Day Concert, a clarinet is presented to one Alachua County middle school band student.
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On Feb. 6, 1968, Hammett Bowen Junior left Ocala to enlist in the U.S. Army and fight in the Vietnam War.
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A proposed Alachua County sports arena has run headlong into the politics of a decades-long effort to inject more economic activity into East Gainesville.
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The lodge, 215 N. Main St., was built in 1908 and is a part of the U.S National Register of Historical Places.
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Punk is often held up as a home for those who feel like outcasts, but even within this space, some felt the local punk scene didn’t include everyone.
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Bread of the Mighty Food Bank wants more of the community to help with donations.
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They had one goal in mind – to create a solution for racial inequity in Alachua County by creating after school and out-of-school programs.
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The scorned smell that wafts from Cabot-Koppers Superfund site on Northwest 23rd Avenue in Gainesville is from the excavation of the odorous pine tar still in the ground where charcoal facilities used to be on the Cabot Corp.’s 50-acre portion of the site.
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