The 4As town hall meeting at the Alachua County Health Department was designed as a moment to bring everyone up to speed on the latest in East Gainesville development and help bridge a division between city and county leaders.
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Six months after Glenn Richards’ conversation with Jason Hedges about his band’s debut album, Jason (also frontman of the Petty tribute band, Heavy Petty) would be organizing a concert to celebrate the life and legacy of Gainesville’s Tom Petty, who passed away unexpectedly on October 2nd. Two years later, that original event – held over what would have been Petty’s 67th birthday – has grown into the Tom Petty Birthday Weekend featuring multiple events across the city including two music festivals.
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The Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency is working on behalf of Gainesville Regional Utilities and the city to facilitate the 17-acre district between downtown and Depot Park.
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Gainesville got a little cleaner this past weekend as about 160 volunteers collected 19,121 pounds of trash during the fifth annual Clean Creek Revival, according to Megan Black, executive director of Current Problems, a nonprofit environmental group.
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Business partners Mitch Glaeser and Rich Blaser plan to build a 175-foot tower home to businesses, meeting rooms and rock climbing walls – including a 130-foot indoor climbing wall. This would be the biggest climbing wall in the world.
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As part of the subcommittee’s goal to create more internet access for the University of Florida and Gainesville, the subcommittee also plans to extend free wireless service on Southwest Second Avenue from Southwest 13th Street to Main Street and eventually into Depot Park.
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Alachua County's new ordinance allows each of the nine affected municipalities until October to decide if they want it to take effect in their jurisdictions.
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As 130 participants prepared to run a 5K Sunday morning in support of hurricane relief, the rain poured down as if to remind them of the wind and rain that ravaged the Florida Panhandle in October.
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The city commission accepted his resignation on Thursday, a week after some commissioners had complained about his management style and problems with employee morale.
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Gainesville is moving forward with the cleanup of a petroleum-contaminated site in town.
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