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Alachua County has been selected as one of Stepping Up’s growing cohort of Innovator Counties – counties that are successfully using the Stepping Up suggested three-step approach to collect and analyze timely data on the prevalence of people who have mental illnesses in jails. Alachua County will be sharing its experience and expertise and helping...

Alachua County and Celebration Pointe (Viking Inc.) are hosting a “Topping Off Ceremony” at the Alachua County Sports Event Center on May 6, 2022, at 5 p.m. at the construction site located adjacent to 5001 Celebration Pointe Avenue. The event will celebrate the placement of the final steel beam of the Center’s structure.  Speakers at...

The Gainesville Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association recognized several local professionals for excellence in public relations and communications at the North Florida Image Awards at Blue Gill Quality Foods in Gainesville on April 21. The North Florida Image Awards is conducted annually and has become a standard of public relations excellence in the...

The public is encouraged to join Concept Companies at Foundation Park in Alachua, Florida on May 5, 2022, for the BioFlorida Celebration of Biotechnology. Concept Companies has announced it is the host sponsor of this outdoor community event which attracts more than 500 industry professionals from Florida’s life sciences community to celebrate Biotechnology.  The event’s...

The City of Newberry has partnered with SeeClickFix to announce a new platform, “Newberry FL Connect, ” allowing citizens to report quality-of-life issues and request Newberry services through a mobile app instead of calling or emailing. This includes potholes, visibility issues, potential water main leaks, park issues, code enforcement issues, and many other issues or...

Beth Virnig, Ph.D., M.P.H., has been named dean of the University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, the sixth in the college’s 64-year history. Virnig, who joins UF on July 11, currently serves as a professor in the division of health policy and management at the University of Minnesota School of Public...

Santa Fe College partnered with the City of Gainesville to renovate the driving pad at Santa Fe College’s Institute of Public Safety (IPS), creating an environment to train students at IPS entering careers in public safety, as well as current first responders employed by the City of Gainesville. In the fall of 2021, SF entered...

A list of 37 area nonprofit organizations expected to share $7 million in American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) funds will be finalized by the Gainesville City Commission at its April 21 meeting. In January, the commission selected the Community Foundation of North Central Florida (Foundation), a local nonprofit that promotes and sustains philanthropy,...

It is crucial to get a test result for a pathogen quickly, lest someone continue in their daily lives infecting others. And delays in testing have undoubtedly exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the most accurate COVID-19 test often takes 24 hours or longer to return results from a lab. At-home test kits offer results in...

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Communities Local Energy Action Program (LEAP) has chosen the Alachua County EMPOWER Program to receive technical assistance. Their assistance will advance clean energy-related economic development in the County. Communities LEAP is a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to help energy-overburdened communities take direct control of their clean energy future. Partners in...