Jonesville

Gaston's Tree Service employs an excavator to load debris into the grinder on the company's property just south of West Newberry Road near Jonesville. (Livia Bennett/WUFT News)

Tree service responds to concerns over Newberry property use

Livia Bennett

The owner of a local tree service is trying to calm concerns from a neighbor over what he plans to do with 85 acres in western Alachua County.

The Point

The Point, Nov. 1, 2023: What happens to books after the Friends of the Library book sale?

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Gainesville Regional Utilities board member Eric Lawson, right, is sworn in to office during the GRU Authority board’s first meeting at the City Commission building in Gainesville, Florida Oct. 4, 2023. (Gabriel Velasquez Neira/WUFT News) (edited

Government and Politics

New Gainesville Regional Utilities Authority Board members sworn into office

Gabriel Velasquez Neira

The board faces a steep learning curve. It oversees about $3 billion in assets and will learn about the utility company’s Integrative Resource Plan, advanced metering infrastructure and debt in the coming weeks.

The Point

The Point, June 23, 2023: What Florida's abortion law looks like a year after Roe overturning

WUFT News

The state supreme court will decide whether it stays at 15 weeks or goes to six weeks.

Business and Development

Downtown Gainesville rock climbing gym celebrates two years, hopes to open second gym

Jenny Rogers

As the city’s sole rock climbing gym, The Knot is taking the Gainesville climbing scene to new heights. Since its February 2020 opening, co-owners Mike…

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The Point, Jan. 25, 2023: WUFT Special Report: How illegal online betting works

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The Point, Nov. 4, 2022: Professor tenure could be tied to race-related instruction law

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Frederick Fisher is now appealing the decision to reject his application for the Pigford Black Farmer License for a medical marijuana operation. The very racial discrimination the set-aside license was meant to remedy created obstacles to obtaining it. (Katie Hyson/WUFT News)

Racial equity

A Jonesville man's story challenges the logic of Florida's process to award a marijuana license to a Black farmer

Katie Hyson

It highlights a paradox: To win a license intended to remedy historic inequalities in wealth and access, you might need to be rich and well-connected.

West End supporters filled the benches in the commission's meeting room on Tuesday. Around 30 of them traveled together on a bus to attend. (Emma Behrmann/WUFT News)

Environment

Alachua County Commission upholds residents’ wishes; West End property remains recreational

Emma Behrmann

The vote halts developer Sayed Moukhtara and JBrown Professional Group from constructing a 70-home subdivision named Tara Club.

A farmer in Suwanee County has been awarded a medical marijuana license.

Agriculture

State picks North Florida farmer for pot license

News Service of Florida

The owner of a Suwanee County farm is in line to be the state’s newest medical-marijuana operator, beating out 11 other applicants competing for a license earmarked for a Black farmer with ties to Florida.