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The 114-room Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott in Gainesville, Florida has opened. Located at 3877 SW 37th Boulevard, the Fairfield Inn & Suites Gainesville I-75 will operate as a Marriott franchise, owned and managed by Lake City Hotels, Inc. of Lake City, Florida. Located five miles from the University of Florida and 15 minutes...

Whole Foods Market’s Gainesville store, the first location for the natural and organic grocery store in north central Florida, is set to open Wednesday, May 9. “We have created this location specifically for the lifestyle of the Gainesville community,” said Juan Nunez, President of Whole Foods Market’s Florida region. “We know our new customers will...

Alachua County is newest site for nation’s largest provider of service dogs for disabled American veterans Very much like the beat up piece of deep brown leather leash he wears diagonally across his body with a frayed segment almost completely chewed through, K9s for Warriors graduate and new Alachua Florida K9s director Randy Dexter explains,...

Imagine being a graduate student working a part-time job in a lab with expert aerospace engineer faculty members and geomatic scientists. Never in your wildest dreams would you imagine that a short time later you would be developing technology for the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Geological Service. A modern day “Shark Tank”...

Citizen Centered, People Empowered. We’ve all heard Gainesville’s new rebranded label a few dozen times by now, and for good reason. As Gainesville continues onward and upward, a few quiet community leaders continue to move the needle by example. Enter the Grove Street Gardens, a label that neighborhood curator/designer, Gregory Stetz has learned to (perhaps...

UF Health researchers are developing new antibiotic drug combinations to attack one of the world’s deadliest superbugs. The superbug Acinetobacter baumannii, or A. baumannii, is a bacterial pathogen resistant to many antibiotics. Commonly found in hospitals, nursing homes and other health care facilities, A. baumannii is among the most challenging hospital-acquired pathogens in the world....

The City of Gainesville, in conjunction with the University of Florida (UF), has awarded a one-year initial contract to implement VantageLive! By Iteris, Inc., the global leader in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture. The cloud-based intersection data analytics service will be located at 20 locations in the city.   The agreement is part of...

Saturday morning, March 3, five Eastside High School students (and students from 44 other schools across the state) walked into a conference hall at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando with a cooler of food, set of knives and a plan. The challenge? Create a three course meal in one hour using two burners and...

The University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine’s open house will offer a day of educational demonstrations, tours and more, including a visit from local celebrity pig Chris P. Bacon. Organized by third-year UF veterinary students with support from the college and various sponsors, the free event will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m....

Lendio, a free online service that helps business owners find the right small business loans, recently announced the opening of a new Lendio franchise in the Gainesville-Ocala Florida region. Through the Lendio franchise program local franchise owner, Luis Salazar, will help local businesses in the community apply for loans, review their options and secure funding,...