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There are no emergency blue lights on fraternity row, located on the southwest end of campus near Lake Alice.
Read More »UF Students To Hold Protest Calling For Emergency Blue Lights On Fraternity Row
At This Florida Peanut Farm, Yields Are Down From Last Year But Still Abundant
Peanuts make up 1.7% of Florida’s crops, but crop yields are down from last year.
Read More »Diploma Dreams Become Reality For Inmates At Graduation
In 2016, the Florida Gateway College became part of the Second Chance Pell Pilot Program. Now, three years later, 47 inmates walked at the first college graduation inside a Florida prison.
Read More »Life After Separation
Sebastian Gil enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps after his family was deported in 2017.
Read More »United Methodist General Counsel’s Vote On Sexuality Can’t Shake The Faith
The General Conference of The United Methodist Church upheld its long-standing ban on LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage during a special session in February.
Read More »How Pigs And Cows Saved A School
Once on the verge of shutting down due to low grades, Hawthorne Middle/High School has bounced back in recent years thanks to the revival of its agricultural program.
Read More »Always Alecia: One Woman’s Journey To Define Her Identity
Alecia Abel takes steps toward becoming comfortable in her own skin and away from hiding who she has always been.
Read More »Alachua Farmers Market Offers Another Option To Buy And Sell Fresh Local Produce
The Alachua County Farmers Market provides producers from the area with a centralized venue to sell their goods gives the community an alternative option to buy locally grown and produced products.
Read More »Practicing Conversion Therapy Would Bring $125 Fine Under Proposed Alachua County Ordinance
At its second public policy discussion on conversion therapy, the Alachua County Commission voted unanimously Tuesday morning to continue development of an ordinance that will ban the practice in the county.
Read More »2018 Transgender Day of Remembrance Held In Gainesville
Holding tealight candles set in palm-sized glass jars, about 100 people gazed silently upon the stage as 300 names resounded Tuesday night at Bo Diddley Plaza in Gainesville.
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