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With closed storefronts and empty sidewalks in this small, drive-by town, it is clear the town's once vibrant light has dimmed as the population dwindled. However, Waldo's city government is making strides for economic development and working on a number of projects to increase the population and turn the fate of the town around.

Once developed hubs for the citrus industry, these two communities now bear little resemblance to the agricultural centers they were in the mid-19th century. Instead, today they boast small-town values and fellowship as well as sleepy oak-canopied dirt roads.

In the recent years Sweetwater Branch Creek along University Avenue and 4th Avenue has become a forgotten park and littered waterway. Now volunteers are trying to clean up the creek that flows through the downtown area of Gainesville, located between the Matheson History Museum Complex and the Alachua County Library District Headquarters.

The Florida Department of Transportation and the Florida Turnpike Enterprise are both performing studies that could lead to new road developments in Alachua County, leaving local residents of Newberry and Jonesville concerned for their homes and rural way of life.

For those growing up in towns like Shiloh and Micanopy, wayward cows are simply a way of life, but as sprawl sets in, local law enforcement must establish "cow protocols" to herd those bailing bovines back home.

Stanton-Weirsdale residents seek county's assistance in repaving roads that lead to community flooding.

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Bob Page, chairman of the GNV airport board, said the main purpose of the expansion is to create more space to accommodate passenger experience.