Newberry will escalate the fight against opioid addiction in March with a five-member task force dedicated to solving the crisis. While the Alachua County Health Promotion and Wellness Coalition does not have specific statistics on opioid addiction in Newberry, they claim nearly ten percent of middle and high school students …
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Nearly 200 teams are in Gainesville Thursday for the 2019 Florida High School Competitive Cheerleading State Championships – the most ever, organizers said yesterday.
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A consultant's report suggests Alachua County should build a new events center on the former Cabot-Koppers toxic superfund site in Gainesville.
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Newberry residents broke bread together on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, after watching a premiere video of the town’s pastors delivering a unified message: Compassion isn’t divided by race. Newberry High School students compiled clips from the town’s Community Dinner on the Grounds event in November – Newberry’s latest effort to …
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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 …
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Brenda Whitfield has lived in Newberry all her life. (Joshua Baker/WUFT News) Brenda Whitfield has heard stories of lynchings in Alachua County since being in middle school. The lifelong Newberry resident recalls her great-grandmother’s tales of people being hanged at “Lynch Hammock,” the site of several long ago extrajudicial killings …
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Faith, fellowship and forgiveness: The newest chapter in Newberry's winding journey for truth and reconciliation. From the Newberry Six lynchings in 1916 to the first year of desegregation in the town, Newberry has a lot to reconcile.
Read More »Officials in High Springs replaced a pipeline in February to improve water quality. But residents aren't confident that it's improving due to frequent boil water notices and discolored and odorous water.
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The Gainesville City Commission is having to start over in its search for a solution.
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In a nearly 400-page book on the history of Waldo, only a few lines allude to the town's namesake.
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