Tag Archives: Main Street in Gainesville

Eight months after Gainesville’s City Commission purchased a chunk of land home to three businesses, the localities are discussing their impending move.

Properties affected by the Cabot-Koppers Superfund site will soon enter the remediation process — ridding their yards and homes of harsh pollutants and chemicals.

Several Alachua County neighborhoods fight crime by using NextDoor, a website and phone app that helps neighbors connect with each other.

A select group of North Florida agencies and programs are feeling the effects of the government shutdown.

The trial period is meant to see how the lane changes will affect traffic flow and safety. The city is monitoring driver, cyclist and pedestrian activity and will examine results once the trial concludes in late November.

The Gainesville City Commission approved the approximately $1 million purchase of the land to use as the new site for Fire Station No. 1. The Repurpose Project, Everyman Sound Company and The Church of Holy Colors will have until December 2014 to move.

Over the last two years the Alachua County branch of Seniors vs. Crime, a program of the Florida attorney general’s office, has settled nine cases on behalf of car buyers against Gatorland Toyota, a dealership on Main Street in Gainesville. The group has helped seniors recover more than $92,000.

From Jan. 2008 to March 2013, there were 1,577 reported gun-related crimes. In 2008, 309 gun-related crimes were reported. In 2009, the number increased to a reported 367 crimes. Since then, it has been decreasing.

Today is Tax Day, which means it's the last day to send in your taxes if you don't want to be penalized. Post offices in Gainesville are not extending their hours today as they have in the past.

Several chilly nights across North Central Florida have come as a surprise for late March. At the St. Francis House in Gainesville, staff and volunteers are working to ensure that those who can't always get out of the cold have a place to go.