“Realistically, if they shut us down for three weeks, I could be bankrupt,” said Sueanne Kelsey, 51, a tattoo artist and nail technician who runs The Rare Bird Nail & Ink Studio in Hawthorne.
Read More »Gainesville Businesses Help Schools Feed Students During Spring Break
Under federal law, schools are not permitted to fund meals for students during times when they normally would have been off from school.
Read More »Alachua County Aiming For UF Students To Say They Live In Gainesville For 2020 Census
Alachua County lost hundreds of millions of dollars of federal funding because too few UF students stated during the 2010 census counting that they lived in Gainesville, officials said.
Read More »Alachua County Holds Online Public Forum About Fairgrounds Redevelopment
According to the report, The U.S. Army Reserve would spend $36 million to construct the facility. In the process, 316 construction jobs, which would last between 12 and 16 months, would be created in Alachua County.
Read More »Florida Shuts Down Visits To Prisons Until At Least April 5 Over Pandemic
As Florida's confirmed cases of the coronavirus pandemic rise, the risk of the disease spreading within state prisons and jails is causing officials to rethink how Florida keeps its criminals behind bars.
Read More »Gainesville Business, Residents React To Closing Of All Dine-In Options In Florida
Many dining and beverage spot owners said they were just as worried about the impact on the community as they were their own short- and long-term business viability.
Read More »I Tried To Get Tested For COVID-19 In Alachua County. Here’s What Happened.
It was something I hadn’t known to be afraid of — to not be able to breathe comfortably, and not know where to get care.
Read More »DeSantis Shuts Down Restaurant Dining
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday issued an executive order that blocks restaurants statewide from serving food in their dining rooms.
Read More »Does Climate Have A Role In The Spread Of COVID-19?
A region’s climate could play a role in the spread of COVID-19, but there are less than three months of data for scientists to work with.
Read More »U.S. Orders Up To A Yearlong Break On Mortgage Payments
The federal government is telling lenders to lower or suspend mortgage payments for up to 12 months for homeowners who have lost income due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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