Some people bring their kids or their dogs to work, but Becky Goodman snuck a squirrel into the office every day. She works full time for a local tech company and owns a business building nesting boxes for squirrels to fund all 80 in her care. And she does all …
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The culture of Gainesville runs deep at Grove Street Games — down to the name. The studio is even named after the Grove Street neighborhood where its offices were formerly located. The name also has ties to the Grand Theft Auto series that Grove Street Games developers have worked on …
Read More »Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: The war against flooding: A Gainesville family’s nightmare. “The Blanchards live in a downstream neighborhood that sits at the bottom of a 480-acre watershed that starts at Newberry Road and …
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When the dark clouds roll in, the Blanchards’ storm preparation team rolls out. “Prepped, staged, deployed” is what the couple calls their flooding protection process. It starts when clear skies fade away. That’s when Gainesville resident Mike Blanchard, 53, starts watching the storm radar with a vigilant eye. But he …
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The nation’s largest homebuilder has proposed plans to build townhomes on a property bordering an abandoned Clay County mining facility with a history of chemical contamination. The Russell Road Land Trust is the new owner of the 78 acres sandwiched between the mining site, owned by Stoneridge Farms, and Russell …
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The first substantial videos to emerge from a panicked stampede at the University of Florida during a nighttime vigil for Israelis killed in the Hamas attacks show waves of terrified students sprinting out of their shoes, discarding phones and water bottles and colliding with startled and confused police officers who …
Read More »Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: Legal experts say DeSantis’ efforts to shut down pro-Palestinian university groups are likely illegal. “The experts cited a 2010 Supreme Court case that ruled the federal version of the terrorism …
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The Gainesville City Commission repealed the city’s open container laws Thursday, making it illegal to carry and drink alcohol in most public spaces starting Jan. 1. The city will designate two areas as Arts, Culture and Entertainment Districts — Downtown/Depot Park and part of the Grove Street neighborhood — where …
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New facts are coming to light about a man in jail on a terrorism charge over an Instagram video in which he threatened last week to fire an assault rifle at a middle school. The new information raises questions about detailed statements he made about his background, family and financial …
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Alachua County resident Kiana Clayton got a home of her own last Thursday. Clayton, 26, is a manager and cook at Bev’s Drive-Thru. She has worked there for the past decade. She needed help finding an affordable place to live, so she turned to her sister for guidance, who just …
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