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Summertime in Gainesville means different things to different people. For some, it’s an opportunity to spend more time with the family, for others it means exploring our city’s beautiful natural spaces. For many of us, it’s largely business as usual, only with more available parking and less traffic to battle. If you’re a small business owner in Gainesville, however, it’s likely that the summer months...

The UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine program is showcasing original works of art by Sandra Murphy-Pak, an artist living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Murphy-Pak paintings and drawings are an exploration of how an artist can continue to work without the use of her hands. In recognition of ALS Awareness Month, Murphy-Pak’s new...

Brittany Martabano, a fourth-year student at the University of  Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named the 2016 national winner of the Bayer Excellence in Communication Award. She was selected from entries representing 27 veterinary schools, which were awarded a total of $70,000 in scholarship funds through this year’s competition. Created and funded by...

The University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions has received approval from the Florida Board of Governors to offer a bachelor’s degree in public health beginning this fall. Interest in public health has exploded in recent years with the emergence of serious health issues at home and abroad, such as air pollution...

Ken Peng, a local food blogger and critic with the title “Ken Eats Gainesville”, will begin writing a food column for the Business Report of North Central Florida next month. Peng has lived in Gainesville for the last 12 years, originally hailing from Pembroke Pines. He is a proud Gator alum, who enjoys exploring new...

By Mark Singletary Ask many, if not most, small business owners about future plans and it will normally include plans to grow the business to multiple locations. Two businesses that started in Gainesville have done just that. Retech, a local electronics repair company, and Darr Schackow Insurance, a full service insurance agency, are fulfilling those...

By Laura Labovitz With an average of 14 flights a day out of the Gainesville Regional Airport on American and Delta Airways, local residents aren’t exactly in the middle of a traveling haven. The County Regional Airport Authority, alongside stakeholders including the University of Florida and the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce, has brought in...

By Kristina Orrego Some of Gainesville’s local civic clubs are finding ways to involve millennials — from middle schoolers to burgeoning professionals and young parents — in service-oriented projects. A few of the clubs paving the way include the Alachua Lions Club, the Gainesville Civitan Club and the Kiwanis Club of Gainesville. Deborah McCoy, the...

A newly commissioned study by Boys & Girls Clubs of America found these clubs are a sound investment, providing nearly $10 in benefits to the community for every $1 invested. The study, conducted by the Institute for Social Research and the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, found that every dollar invested...

Perhaps the most technically complicated area of business law is the topic of taxes. The tax responsibility of an enterprise and its owners arises from many sources and in many ways. It is in this domain, then, that a business must work in tandem with its lawyer, its accountant, its bookkeeper, its banker, and its...