Mari Acosta

If development agreements are approved, construction is anticipated to break ground in January, with a proposed opening in July 2022.

The board also appointed two new University of Florida trustees.

Her loved ones remember her as a devoted icon of the Gainesville educational community, a pioneer of integration and a prominent local civil rights activist. She died on Sept. 24 in her home at the age of 96.

Florida Department of Transportation began construction of new light poles and sidewalk restoration on Northeast Waldo Road.

Nearing four years after county commissioners gave the go-ahead for the Newnans Lake Improvement Initiative in an expansive effort to improve the impaired lake's water quality, water restoration efforts remain underway.