Tag Archives: Mike Byerly

The county is going to grow. But how?

The Empowerment Center Advisory Board is reviewing plans to improve medical care at Grace Marketplace and Divinity Village. The board discussed adding more paramedics and creating a medical clinic for Grace Marketplace.

Will natural gas fracking ever come to Florida the way it has in other areas across the country? Maybe, maybe not.

Hawthorne's plan to annex 1,200 of Plum Creek's acres will move forward without legal challenge from Alachua County.

The Alachua County Commission voted 4-1 to fund $12,000 to $15,000 worth of repairs for the current fairgrounds, much less than the proposed $1.2 million. If approved, the county plans to begin building a new fairgrounds facility as soon as January 2017.

Alachua County Commissioner Mike Byerly said he paid about $20,000 to install a solar power system for his home near Micanopy, Florida. He said his family wanted to reduce its carbon footprint, and it was a good financial investment because he no longer pays power bills. His home is completely …

The decision comes as the county awaits a final plan to swap the current Alachua County Fairgrounds property for a parcel of land owned by the Plum Creek Timber Company

In September, the County Commission voted to move Old Joe, Gainesville’s 111-year-old Civil War Confederate soldier statue, to Matheson Museum. But the museum has refused to home the statue, leaving Old Joe's statue standing where it is.

After determining they would need to cover the expenses for moving ‘Old Joe’, the Confederate soldier statue, the Matheson History Museum Board of Directors have declined the donation. The statue currently stands outside the Alachua County Administration Building.