A group of Gainesville pupils ages 9 to 11 take on a coding assignment that uses Scratch, an introductory program created by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Arjuna Myles spends weeks every summer at band camp. But he's no high school student or band director. He’s a drill designer; he directs hundreds of high school students scampering in intricate patterns across football and practice fields around North Central Florida, like ants under a microscope.
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Southwest Gainesville will get a new elementary school, and every school in the county will receive money for improvements from the half-cent sales tax Alachua County voters approved in November.
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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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During the holiday season, the church tries to feed as many people as donations and budget allow. To do so, it depends on Bread of the Mighty.
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Hope Squad is a new nationwide program that trains students for peer-to-peer counseling to prevent suicide attempts among high schoolers, and the program is coming to Alachua County.
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To keep more children out of hospitals and protect the community from preventable disease, county health officials are targeting high-risk populations and hot spots where the flu is most contagious.
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Keith Perry, R-Gainesville, will retain his District 8 State Senate seat.
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As of Monday, more than 5 million Floridians voted by mail or cast a ballot during the state’s early voting period – exceeding the 3.19 million voters who voted before Election Day in 2014. Among those voters, 70,426 were in Alachua County.
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The FDA gave five major e-cigarette companies an ultimatum to curb teen use of e-cigarettes in 60 days or the agency could halt the sale of flavored pods.
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