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Tatanya Peterson had to know what life was like for her ancestors who lived many years ago on James Chesnut’s plantation in Alachua County.
Read More »Alachua County Woman Traces Family History to Slavery
Love Thy Neighbor
She's a Honduran immigrant who's behind Trump, except for one issue.
Read More »“Community Water Tests” Left In Driveways Part Of Marketing Ploy
An Alachua County couple sees through "community water test" survey kits, which are not an official warning of water quality issues, according to the County health department. The kits were distributed by The Science of Water LLC, a private water treatment company.
Read More »South Main Street Reconstruction Earns Praise and Causes Concerns in Gainesville
While no known accident has yet been caused by an awkward U-turn, eight car crashes have been reported within 100 feet of Main and Southwest 16th streets since January, according to traffic crash reports provided by Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
Read More »Tech City Climbing Tower Draws Interest, Skepticism From Rock Climbing Community
Business partners Mitch Glaeser and Rich Blaser plan to build a 175-foot tower home to businesses, meeting rooms and rock climbing walls – including a 130-foot indoor climbing wall. This would be the biggest climbing wall in the world.
Read More »100 Stories From WUFT That Kept You Informed In 2018
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 …
Read More »FDOH On Alert For Mosquito-Borne Diseases
Recent surveillance has the Florida Department of Health on alert for mosquito-borne viruses in Alachua County.
Read More »Local Residents React To Potential Roadway Through Jonesville, Newberry
The Florida Department of Transportation and the Florida Turnpike Enterprise are both performing studies that could lead to new road developments in Alachua County, leaving local residents of Newberry and Jonesville concerned for their homes and rural way of life.
Read More »Why Isn’t Southwest 8th Avenue Near Tioga Open Yet?
Will it have a red-light or a traffic roundabout? That decision nearly held up the project longer.
Read More »Newberry Lynchings: Should They Be Memorialized?
Alachua County is considering whether to memorialize the lynchings that happened in the area between the years of 1891 and 1926.
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