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Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: Ryan Chamberlin secures bid to general election for Florida House District 24 seat in crowded primary election. “Republican candidate Ryan Chamberlin won the primary election for the Florida House District …
Read More »Murder of 24-year-old TV journalist Dylan Lyons weighing heavily on University of Florida’s Innovation News Center
The University of Central Florida is just under a three-hour drive from the University of Florida, and the city of Orlando is about two hours from Gainesville. So, when Gainesville residents and UF students started seeing reports Thursday morning of Dylan Lyons’ death, a mournful, somber cloud loomed over the …
Read More »Critter Creek Farm Sanctuary welcomes baby animals
Critter Creek Farm Sanctuary, the largest bovine farm sanctuary in the country, is a place where animal families find their forever homes. The Gainesville sanctuary was started by Erin and Chris Amerman and has 161 cows, 22 pigs, 10 donkeys, 10 horses, three water buffalo, two turkeys and one bison.
Read More »The Point, Feb. 28, 2023: Gainesville leaders find urgency in dealing with GRU debt
The move comes after a meeting in Tallahassee last week that pressured the city to find a quick resolution.
Read More »The Point, Feb. 21, 2023: GPD K-9 unit back on duty
Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • Mainstreet Daily News: GPD K-9 unit resumes regular duty. “In a GPD press release sent Monday, the unit resumed duty after being moved to patrol duty on Jan. 9.” • The Alligator: …
Read More »The Point, Feb. 16, 2023: Florida school board races could become partisan
Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: Residents asked to review Santa Fe Watershed Flood Risk maps. “The Suwannee River Water Management District has completed a flood-risk review of the Santa Fe River Watershed.” • WUFT News: …
Read More »15 years of beer: Swamp Head Brewery celebrates its 15-year anniversary with Swamp Fest 2023
Swamp Head Brewery is putting on its annual event called Swamp Fest on Feb. 18 from noon to midnight. The event will feature live music, drinks and food and also celebrates the brewery's 15 years in business.
Read More »‘Head Ball Coach’ celebrates the unveiling of Steve Spurrier Way in Celebration Pointe
Steve Spurrier is a man of many titles. The “Head Ball Coach” is the namesake of two football fields, a coaching award and a restaurant – Spurrier’s Gridiron Grille located at Celebration Pointe. Not to mention he’s a national champion head coach, a six-time SEC champion, Heisman Trophy Winner, hall …
Read More »East Gainesville neighbors fight the expansion of a landfill in their backyard – again
The owner, Paul Florence, said he needed the expansion to accommodate expected debris in the coming years as Gainesville rapidly developed.
Read More »Medical community hopeful following FDA’s accelerated approval for Alzheimer’s disease treatment
Members of the Gainesville medical community said they are encouraged by the accelerated approval recently granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to Lecanemab, an Alzheimer’s disease treatment sold under the brand name Leqembi. The decision creates a pathway that allows for provisional approval of drugs that treat serious illnesses for which other treatments are not available or functional.
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