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Newberry residents will head to the ballot box in April and decide whether they want their small town to continue growing at a breakneck pace, or if they want to place checks on the city’s growth.

On Tuesday night, someone broke the window of Mayor Harvey Ward’s office at City Hall, according to a city press release.

Law enforcement surrounded the house and negotiated with Albert Shell Jr. for two hours before he surrendered without incident.

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As the first Black, female mayor of Micanopy, Jiana Williams, 37, often thinks about what her late grandmother, Willie Mae Stokes who used to clean houses…

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