Summer Jarro

As low-income residents struggle to pay their electric bills and the city strives to conserve energy, should basic efficiency become a minimum standard for rentals?

Flooding issues have persisted in certain parts of the county for years. Some residents have lost their homes to flooding multiple times.

Many of Alachua County's elementary school students are attending class in portables due to overcrowding and rapid growth in the western part of the county.

On Sunday, Oct. 29, PResente and music group Tropix hosted a benefit concert to help hurricane victims still being affected in Puerto Rico. The benefit concert raised $17,323. This amount included the money raised from the tickets sold, the silent auction, 10 percent of the money made from Latin American Fusion Food Truck and five sponsor donations.

Areas along NW 98th Street and other nearby neighborhoods dealt with flooding from Irma last month. However, this isn’t a new issue. There have been many other instances of flooding. One of the major ones was in 2004 when multiple hurricanes impacted Gainesville. After Irma hit, Meadowbrook residents spoke with the Meadowbrook Homeowner’s Association board about forming a steering committee to talk about the flooding problems in the area.

As new planned neighborhoods are underway in Gainesville, some residents in the area are worried about traffic issues.