Maggie Lorenz

A new position was recently created to respond to the issues of Marion County's farming community. An agricultural deputy will oversee over 3,500 farms in…

Guest speakers from all over the country — including Vera Bradley's Barbara Bradley Baekgaard — gave presentations Thursday at the University of Florida's Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative on how they broke into their fields and offered advice for young entrepreneurs.

The University of Florida's Sikh Students Association held its annual Turban Day at the university Thursday. During the event, participants were given turbans to wear around campus or Gainesville for a couple hours.

Gainesville may expand its crackdown on smoking to include all RTS facilities as well as public parks. The new amendment would update the previous ordinance, which regulated smoking only at bus stops. The new ordinance would cover shelters, transfer stations and terminal stations.

The second annual Menagerie in Motion Kinetic Derby is set to take place in downtown Gainesville on Saturday. It features sculptures built around human-powered vehicles, like bikes and scooters.

Alachua County commissioners approved placing memorial markers around the county to memorialize lynchings that had occured. Alachua County had the third highest rates of lynchings in the state between 1877 and 1950.

Mimicking the wildly popular Villages retirement community to the South, Newberry residents may soon be able to cruise about town in their open air, environmentally friendly golf carts.

“Traditionally, during the holiday season, we see a spike in car burglaries,” said Capt. Jorge Campos, the Gainesville Police Department's operations bureau commander.

The museum is now open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and provides maps for self-guided tours.

In Alachua County, 77,000-plus people have voted, with 51,100 of those being early voters.