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As a result of COVID-19, this year's Florida Georgia game will not be the world’s largest outdoor cocktail party.
Read More »What Has COVID-19 Changed About The Florida Georgia Game? Things To Know If You’re Attending
High Springs Voters To Decide Commission Races, Await New City Manager
With six candidates running for two city commission seats on Tuesday and five finalists for the city manager’s post, there will be at least two new voices among those leading High Springs.
Read More »Homeless People Raise Concerns About Gainesville’s South Main Street Strategy
The city commission plans to reconvene for updates on the situation on Nov. 19.
Read More »Light Up Ocala Rescheduled For November 2021 Due To Pandemic
Due to the pandemic, the Ocala City Council has agreed to reschedule the annual Light Up Ocala event for November 2021.
Read More »‘It’s A Move We’ve Got to Make’: Priest Theatre In High Springs About To Be Sold
Struggling with adjusting to the new conditions imposed by the pandemic, the Priest Theatre, the mainstay of downtown High Springs, will soon close.
Read More »Gainesville’s Self-Driving Vehicles Are On Public Roads Again
The self-driving advanced technology currently operates with a limited capacity from the Downtown Parking Garage along Southwest Second Avenue to the 12th Street roundabout.
Read More »Despite Florida’s Phase 3 Re-openings, Bargoers And Sports Fans Face Uncertainty
Bars have been open in Florida since September. The weekend that they first reopened, Gainesville Mayor Lauren Poe made his displeasure known.
Read More »‘Need To Be A Little More Cautious’: Students And Medical Professionals Weigh In On COVID-19’s Impact On Young People
At a campaign rally in Ohio last month,President Donald Trump claimed that the coronavirus affects virtually no young people. But nearly 1,000 people between the ages of 0 and 29 contributed to the approximately 210,000 coronavirus-related deaths in the United States, according to the Center forDisease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 Data Tracker.
Read More »Alachua County Commission Votes To Dim Solar Plant Proposal
The denial, however, is not set in stone.
Read More »Alachua County Commission Postpones Vote On Solar Facility Because Of Power Outage
In perhaps another sign of the times Tuesday, a Duke Energy power outage prevented residents from airing concerns about a proposed solar facility that would be managed by the utility.
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