Tag Archives: Newberry

Students at the Academy of Criminal Justice at Newberry High School received high honors at the Florida Public Service Association's state conference. Their teacher, Patrick Treese, also came home with an award for director of the year.

When it comes to creative political campaigning, you might say Gainesville mayor hopeful Peter Lars Johnson is barking up the right tree.

Newberry will host a grand opening baseball and softball tournament March 22-24 at Nations Park.

Newberry welcomes the new Green Initiative and becomes Tree City USA

For a few hours Saturday afternoon, I-75 was closed in both directions after a cattle car transport crash on southbound I-75 near mile marker 387. Florida Highway Patrol and Alachua County Sheriff's officers were on scene and attempting to clean up the site and get traffic moving again.

The United States Olympic Committee was in North Central Florida Monday, visiting Newberry's Easton Sports Complex to consider its archery facility for a role as an official Olympic training site for the 2016 summer games.

This season, the Buchholz High School Golden Regiment Band scaled the mountain, becoming the highest rated 4-A team in the state and earning a spot to perform at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg.

With the November election coming up, some dissatisfied African American religious leaders have told their congregations not to vote. Others, however, draw the line there.

Night time drivers may experience some delays.  The I-75 southbound exit ramp onto Newberry Road will be closed for repaving tomorrow night and possibly Wednesday night, as well. Florida Department of Transportation Spokeswoman Laurie Windham says these closures are part of an even bigger project to reduce traffic back up …

Local elections have begun in Alachua, Newberry and High Springs. Florida’s 89.1, WUFT-FM’s Maria Tridas has more on the signifance of small town politics. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/TridasWrapFP4102012.mp3]