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Multiple cities have formed resolutions against the amendment, and some have filed suit.
Read More »Smaller Cities Spar With Alachua County Over Proposed County Growth Management Area Amendment
Hot Fall Weather And A Rainstorm Greet Opening Of New High Springs Farmer’s Market Pavilion
The only farmer’s market in High Springs reopened at a new location at the corner of Northwest 185th Road and Northwest 235th Street with a green-covered pavilion, ceiling fans, finishing brickwork and fluorescent lights.
Read More »Gainesville’s Regal Theater Locations Close Once Again
About 40,000 Americans face unemployment after Cineworld, Regal’s parent company, released a statement saying it will be suspending operations at all of its 536 U.S theaters less than seven weeks after its previous reopening.
Read More »Gainesville Will Build A New Road Paralleling I-75 In The Coming Years, But First It Needs The Land
A new road that will extend Southwest 62nd Boulevard to Clark Butler Boulevard is currently scheduled to begin in the winter of 2021 and be completed in early 2023.
Read More »Sister Hazel Newberry Drive-In Concert Approved
The Gainesville alternative rock band, Sister Hazel, will be allowed to perform at a drive-in concert in Newberry scheduled for Oct. 23.
Read More »‘People Are Under Pressure’: Depression, Mental Illness Increase During Pandemic
The pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing cases of mental illness, causing an influx of new patients and crisis calls, area mental health providers and advocates say.
Read More »Approval Of Application Permit For Sister Hazel Prolonged By Newberry City Commission
The city of Newberry held a public hearing postponing the application of a Sister Hazel drive-in concert.
Read More »Gainesville Band Sister Hazel Wants To Hold A Drive-In Concert In Newberry
Newberry’s planning and zoning board will decide Wednesday whether to approve Sister Hazel’s bid for a drive-in concert on the site of an abandoned mine in the city on Oct. 23.
Read More »Familiar Faces Vie For Newly Open District 3 Alachua County Commission Seat
Without the ability to get out into the county and share their goals, the candidates must work to find new ways to show their visions for the future.
Read More »Arrival Of Solar Power To Newberry Expected In 2023
Solar power sites that would supply Newberry with renewable energy are set for construction in 2023. In Dec. 2019, the Newberry City Commission explored solar energy ideas. A partnership between Newberry, the Florida Municipal Solar Project and 15 other Florida cities soon followed. The FMPA’s solar plan is split into …
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