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With the lack of police, Waldo has seen an increase in speeding along its main thoroughfare. Now the city aims to make the streets safer with FDOT's Complete Streets project.
Read More »Waldo Aims To Curb Speeders With Complete Streets Project
Residents ‘In The Dark’ Over GRU’s Response To Power Outages, Information Updates
The thunderstorm that pounded Gainesville on Friday morning left more than 38,000 customers without power. Yet by 9 p.m., 6,538 were still without refrigeration, air conditioning or hot water. Residents expressed frustration with GRU’s information shutdown at 9 p.m. on Friday, and some residents did not get their power restored …
Read More »Florida Senate Passes Bill Expanding Armed Teachers Program
The Senate passed a school safety bill 22-17 on Tuesday that makes changes to a law enacted last year after a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland.
Read More »Plans to Develop Property At 5th Avenue, 12th Street In Gainesville Discussed At Neighborhood Workshop
CHW Professional Consults held a neighborhood workshop Wednesday to discuss a proposed Development Plan and a Special Use Permit application on six acres of land.
Read More »Emotions Run High At Neighborhood Meeting Over Recent Dog Attacks
Twenty residents of the Northwood Pines and Northwood Oaks neighborhoods attended the two-hour meeting at the Senior Recreation Center to have their voices heard.
Read More »Midtown Makeover: Development Plan To Replace Swamp, Post Office With Apartments
Student-housing developers are building new high-rise apartments in place of businesses like The Swamp Restaurant, Larry's Giant Subs and the Post Office as soon as January 2020.
Read More »Florida Is The Most Dangerous State for Pedestrians. Here’s What That Means In Gainesville
Florida is the most dangerous state in the U.S. for pedestrians, according to Dangerous by Design 2019, a report that calculated the total fatalities of pedestrians throughout the U.S. 5,433 occurred in Florida in a ten year span.
Read More »Clay County School Board Approves Its Own School Police Department
Clay County schools will have its own police department starting in October 2019.
Read More »Gainesville And UF Are Working To Control How Dockless Scooters Come To The City. Their Efforts Might Not Matter If State Legislators Step In
The city is now in the final stages of working with the University of Florida to settle on an integrative agreement to bring dockless scooters to the area.
Read More »NTSB Says 3 Children In Deadly I-75 Crash Near Gainesville Were Ejected Despite Wearing Seatbelts
The children killed included Joel Cloud and Jeremiah Warren, both 14; Cierra Bordelan, 9; Cara Descant, 13 and Brieana Descant, 10.
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