Corrine Brown began her prison sentence, Alachua County and Gainesville leaders squabbled over seemingly every issue large and small, and six weeks into the new year, the Valentine’s Day school shooting in Parkland changed much about what was to unfold. It was a busy year in local and statewide Florida …
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Cities in Marion County are still awaiting money from FEMA to mend hurricane damages. Ocala incurred $7.5 million in damages.
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Panhandle residents remain resilient while waiting for help and starting the rebuilding process weeks after Hurricane Michael ripped apart their homes and neighborhoods.
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The storm is forecast to be the most destructive to hit the Panhandle in decades and expected to send life-threatening surges of ocean water into coastal areas along the Gulf of Mexico.
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Hurricane Michael was the most powerful storm to make landfall in the continental U.S. in more than 26 years. The now tropical storm is moving over Georgia on its way to the Carolinas.
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An abundance of rainfall this summer brought severe flooding in Rosalind Greene’s Northeast Gainesville neighborhood.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is in the process of updating flood zone maps, including those portions in and around Gainesville.
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Alachua County Fire Rescue joined the Alachua County Sheriff's Department's annual in-service scenario training for the first time at Santa Fe High School to improve joint response to potential mass-casualty events.
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Poe Springs is scheduled to reopen by Memorial Day on May 28.
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Alachua County is about to start a two-phase restoration project to repair Poe Springs Park, which had been forced to close after Hurricane Irma.
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