Gainesville City Commissioner David Arreola (District 3) will host a one-hour telephone town hall meeting Thursday, June 30 at 6:15 p.m. at City Hall about inclusionary and exclusionary zoning. Joining Commissioner Arreola in the community dialogue is interim City Manager Cynthia W. Curry and the Director of the Department of Sustainable Development Andrew Persons. Interim...

The City of Gainesville invites all neighbors to its first City Services Fair to learn more about City programs, events, services, job opportunities, charter officers, governing structure and more. When: Saturday, June 25 from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Where: Martin Luther King, Jr. Multipurpose Center, 1028 NE 14th Street Residents will have the opportunity to learn...

University of Florida Health Shands Children’s Hospital continued its remarkable run as one of the Southeast’s premier pediatric medical centers as U.S. News & World Report ranked it as Florida’s No. 1 children’s hospital, with five pediatric specialties earning the elite distinction of being rated among the nation’s best. The U.S. News 2022-23 Best Children’s...

Stay-at-home dads are more common than ever before. Because of fathers’ changing roles in the household, advertisers are shifting how they market their products to this target audience. Advertisements directed toward dads now portray fathers as actively involved in parenting. This form of advertising is commonly referred to as “dadvertising.” To determine how successful dadvertisements...

Exactech, a developer and producer of innovative implants, instrumentation, and smart technologies for joint replacement surgery, announced successful first surgeries using the Equinoxe® Laser Cage Glenoid, an innovative, next-generation shoulder implant designed to improve glenoid fixation in anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty. This new glenoid implant, available in standard and augmented options, features a central bone...

SATLANTIS, a UF startup and a resident client at UF Innovate | Accelerate @ The Hub, has announced its agreement with Armenia for Urdaneta. After the successful launch of Urdaneta from Cape Canaveral, the company announced an agreement to provide a full Earth Observation system to Geocosmos, the Armenian company subsidiary of the RA Ministry...

The month of June marks the start of hurricane season. Hurricanes can be extremely dangerous and disruptive to the community. Alachua County Fire Rescue (ACFR) would like to remind everyone to be prepared and stay alert in case of a hurricane.  To prepare for a hurricane, make an emergency plan that includes where you and...

The qualifying period for candidates to qualify for office in the 2022 City of Gainesville elections is scheduled from noon on Monday, June 13 to noon on Friday, June 17. Individuals interested in running for office should contact the Gainesville City Clerk’s Office at 352-334-5015 or [email protected] for an elections packet and to schedule an...

Sign up for alertGNV! Be sure to sign up for the City of Gainesville’s mass notification system, alertGNV to ensure that you receive important messages from the City of Gainesville, Alachua County, the State of Florida and the National Weather Service at alertGNV.org. Special Needs Registry for Emergency Shelters Open Hurricane season is approaching, and...

The director of the National Science Foundation, one of the country’s largest and most impactful federal research agencies, visited the University of Florida last week to discuss opportunities for university researchers as well as the agency’s priorities and vision. NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, who oversees the $8.8 billion federal agency, toured various NSF-funded projects beginning...