SF Foundation Launches Pillars of Service Awards
Santa Fe College Foundation has introduced a new awards program for community service called the Pillar of Service Awards. The first awards will be presented at a luncheon on May 23, 2025. The awards, while honoring individuals, organizations, students and SF alumni who have made significant impacts on the college and the community, also will...
UF Online Degree Programs Receive Top Rankings
For the third year in a row, U.S. News & World Report has ranked University of Florida as the top institution in the country to offer an online bachelor’s degree for veterans and active-duty service members. The rankings organization also named UF as No. 2 overall for its online degree programs and No. 1 for...
Gainesville Announces New RTS Contract With the University of Florida
The City of Gainesville and the University of Florida (UF) have announced a new bus service contract that will continue the university’s prepaid bus fare program through mid-2027. This comes as Regional Transit System (RTS) ridership grew by 7.3% in Fiscal Year 2024, increasing from 5.1 million to more than 5.5 million passenger trips across...
Graduation Rates up at District’s Traditional High Schools
The percentage of students in Alachua County Public Schools’ traditional high schools who graduated on time increased in 2024, according to data released late yesterday by the Florida Department of Education. The collective graduation rate for the seven ACPS high schools was 92.7%, up from 90.2% in 2023. Those schools include Buchholz, Eastside, Gainesville, Hawthorne,...
UF Health Celebrates Groundbreaking for Orthopaedic Surgical Center
UF Health officials and community leaders gathered early January to break ground for the UF Health Orthopaedic Surgical Center, a more than 24,000-square-foot medical facility that will support outpatient services for total joint replacements and other orthopaedic procedures while expanding access to patients in Alachua County and Northeast Florida. “We reflect anew on our longstanding...
Gainesville Receives Federal Award to Fund New EV Charging Stations
The City of Gainesville has been awarded $11.65 million in grant funding through the federal Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Program, the U.S. Department of Transportation has announced. The funds will enable the city to build 47 new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations throughout the area; the dual-port stations would be capable of charging as...
Infotech Appoints Shelly Nooner as Chief Product Officer
Infotech has announced the appointment of Shelly Nooner as the company’s Chief Product Officer. Previously at Trimble, Nooner joins the company with over two decades of experience in product development, engineering innovation, and mergers and acquisitions for the public sector. “We are excited to welcome such a first-class and seasoned Chief Product Officer to Infotech’s...
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Florida Universities Unite to Propel Space Exploration
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is entering a new era of collaboration that will propel the nation’s space exploration by leveraging the world-class expertise at three Florida universities. As outlined in a memorandum of understanding signed in early January, the institutions will provide critical research and development support for NASA’s Moon to Mars Initiative,...
Tower Publications Acquires Guide to Greater Gainesville Magazine
Tower Publications, publishers of Our Town Magazine, Senior Times and the BANCF Parade of Homes™ Magazine has acquired Guide to Greater Gainesville Magazine from Costello Communications & Marketing. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We have long admired what Scott Costello and his team have done in our community with his excellent publications,” said...
