For Raef Slim, the worst part is the rain. Slim moved to Gainesville from Lebanon last year and still takes issue with the new climate. “It’s so hot, and then suddenly it rains,” he said. “What happened?” But on a sunny day in November, Slim spends most of the day …
Read More »Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • Mainstreet Daily News: Alachua County joins lawsuit against GNV zoning. “Peggy Carr and Faye L. Williams filed the lawsuit, with support from local nonprofit Gainesville Neighborhood Voices (GNVoices), and a judge will …
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The University of Florida has taken some of the first steps in its artificial intelligence (AI) initiative by creating an AI curriculum that is geared toward K-12 students and that offers AI classes to UF students, among other various measures.
Read More »Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • The Alligator: Gainesville protests overturn of Roe v. Wade. “Protestors left the courthouse to march. They passed the attorney general’s office on their way to the Community Pregnancy Clinic, a crisis pregnancy …
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Brian Brainard Wedgeworth, 46, swindled Johnson of thousands of dollars in 2017, federal prosecutors said. A grand jury indicted him in October, and he was arrested in Nashville shortly afterward.
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The coronavirus pandemic and ensuing stay-at-home orders forced places of worship to quickly determine the best course of action and adapt.
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The How Bazar's partnership with Sitti Soap is connecting the women of the Jerash Refugee Camp in Jordan to Gainesville through masks.
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A hacker gained entry to the system controlling a Pinellas County water treatment plant and tried to taint the water supply with a caustic chemical.
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While these two candidates have very different lives, they share one goal: raising student achievement.
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Through a short service, a meal, community news and trivia, local Jews rested and bonded in-person for the first time in months.
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