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Alachua County had an overall recycling rate of 68% in 2018, ranking third-highest in Florida. But Klugh said the public waste department must continue to educate residents about what should and should not be recycled – especially since the market for recyclables is down.

Breastfeeding support groups like La Leche League continue to encourage women to continue breastfeeding, and their presence has again grown in the past two years in Gainesville, too.

The Gainesville City Commission this fall declared a climate state of emergency — a largely symbolic move with little municipal heft behind it compared to the actions the federal government could take if motivated and mobilized — but some city residents do feel a sense of urgency to take steps toward combating climate change.

Hawthorne recently received a $650,000 community development block grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to expand and improve the park.

Santa Fe College extended a lucrative, five-year contract for its campus bookstore with Barnes & Noble without soliciting competitive bids, and it failed to verify that the company has been paying all commissions so far as required on bookstore sales, according to a new state audit.

One 4-mile stretch of State Road 121 through Gainesville has had nearly 900 reported car crashes in the past three years.

A grassroots education coalition aims to have it used in after-school programs in the county, in an effort to help improve literacy rates and close the resulting racial disparity.

The USMCA, if ratified by Congress by the end of the month, will ensure that an already bad situation for berry farmers will grow worse in 2020.

One man now has more than $500,000 in fines and liens on his two properties in the City of Gainesville.