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Santa Fe Receives “Gold”, and Nearly $4M in Funding

Santa Fe College is leading its 27 peers in the Florida College System. With high graduation rates, a steadily increasing retention rate, and a job placement rate over 96 percent, SF earned the state’s highest “gold” performance rating and will receive nearly four million dollars of performance-based funding for the 2018-2019 academic year. “There is...
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Celebrating Our Public Schools: Alachua County Public School Awareness Month

Serving more than 27,000 students in 48 schools and centers, Alachua County Public Schools play a large part in the Gainesville and surrounding communities. To recognize this importance September was declared Public School Awareness Month in Alachua County. It was created “to remind every person and business that it is the public’s duty to protect...
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Eagle Construction Commits $250,000 to University of Florida’s College of Design, Construction and Planning

Eagle Construction of VA, LLC has provided $250,000 to the University of Florida’s College of Design, Construction and Planning for a fellowship that will provide $50,000 every year for five years.   Eagle Construction is sponsoring this fellowship to support research in the field of advanced construction technologies, conducted largely by the Center for Advanced...
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Santa Fe Adds Associate Degree in Information Security

Beginning Fall 2018, the Santa Fe College Information Technology Education program will begin a new Associate Degree in Information Security. This Associate degree will be complemented with a new Security specialization track in our Information Systems Technology BAS program. Santa Fe College two years Vocational Associate Degrees are designed to train the local workforce to...
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Local Company’s Product Used in North Korean Summit

Gainesville-based, leather products company, Dacasso has announced that it recently provided the leather conference pads for the historic Singapore Summit between President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un. “We were very proud to be asked to outfit the meeting table with our Conference Table Pads and we’re honored to participate in such an...
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The Business of Putting on a Show: How the Hipp and the Gainesville Community Playhouse Enrich Our Community

“The theater is one of the few places left in the bright and noisy world where we sit in the quiet dark together, to be awake.” – Sarah Ruhl These words embody the missions of local theaters and playhouses across the country and Gainesville is fortunate enough to have two of these types of destinations:...
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Mod Pizza to Open First Gainesville Location in Late Summer

BBX Capital has announced that it will open its first MOD Pizza Gainesville location in late summer of this year. The new MOD Pizza will be located in the heart of the city at The Standard at 50 NW 13th St, Unit 30. This new storefront will be located a few steps away from the...
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Cox Doubles Download Speeds of High Speed Internet, Expanding Gigabit Availability

Cox Communications has announced it is doubling the download speeds for the majority of its high-speed internet customers. Previously, Cox announced that gigabit speeds, marketed as the company’s G1GABLAST service plan, is now available to 100 percent of its customers in its Central Florida service area. “Cox is committed to delivering gigabit services to all...
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Gainesville Selected for U.S. Navy Band Tour

America’s Navy is coming to Gainesville, one of seven cities in four states to host a performance by the United States Navy Band during its 2018 tour — one of the signature outreach programs of the U.S. Navy. The United States Navy Band Country Current performance is scheduled for September 4, 2018, at 8 p.m....
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Live Music Taking the Stage at Heartwood

Bob McPeek has been involved with music most of his life. He created Mirror Image Recording Studios in 1977. Although he sold it 20 years later to begin a “real job” as a research psychologist, he was always involved with music in some way with the studio. After retiring in 2014, Bob bought Mirror Image...