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In July, the Florida Board of Education mandated five hours of mental health instruction within the school year. The state became the third in the nation to require it.

Seven hundred fifteen acres that was once slated to be a residential area in Alachua County instead opened on Saturday – National Public Lands Day – as Four Creeks Nature Preserve.

City of Alachua elections were held Tuesday to decide the Mayoral and City Commissioner seats resulting in a runoff between Pelham and Coerper for mayor, and Wilford with the Commissioner seat 2.

People living between Gainesville and Alachua will no longer feel like they’re in “no man’s land” for coverage.

Owner Chris Marcum took over the course about two years ago and recently acquired more than $60,000 worth of water-pumping equipment to deal with future floods.

What was once to be a 700-acre planned development on Gainesville’s northern edge will likely soon be a conservation and parks area.

The county and its municipalities all receive portions of this funding, but the largest chunk, 57.17 percent, goes to the county and the second largest 35.78 percent, to the City of Gainesville. What is Gainesville going to spend this money on?

Of the thousands of tons of recycling processed each year by the Alachua County Materials Recovery Facility, some of those items cannot be recycled.