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Alachua County Florida has been selected to receive a three-year $250,000 grant from the Pritzker Children’s Initiative, one of 10 awarded following a national, year-long competition to identify innovative community-based efforts to improve outcomes for infants and toddlers. The Children’s Trust of Alachua County will manage the grant funds on behalf of a coalition of...

Alachua County invites the public to celebrate the opening of Turkey Creek Preserve with a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on Monday, March 1, 2021. The event begins at 10 a.m., at Turkey Creek Preserve. The main trailhead and parking area are located at 6300 N.W. 93rd Avenue.  The speakers at the Ribbon Cutting include Alachua County...

In 2014, Suzanne Gilbert moved from London to Florida to be with her now-wife Alisha after months of long-distance communication. They were married in early 2015 and by 2018, they were throwing axes.  When Suzanne and Alisha first discovered the art of ax throwing, they were amazed by how much fun it was. The experience...

The phone call came in late one night last year. On the outskirts of Gressier, Haiti, two children were ill. The nurses for MotoMeds, a pediatric call center and mobile medicine delivery service run as a University of Florida research initiative, asked crucial questions about the children’s symptoms. The principal investigator Eric Jorge Nelson, M.D.,...

Gator Deal Finder, LLC has launched a new website, www.GatorDealFinder.com to help consumers find local coupons and deals from businesses in Gainesville. The new website aims to serve both businesses and consumers providing a valuable resource for the Gainesville, FL community. Now local consumers can easily search and find local deals and business information, while...

Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV)’s K9 Team, Jason Berger and Beamer, have been selected to participate in the 2021 Vested Interest in K9s, Inc. nationwide fundraising calendar, and are featured in the month of March. Beamer is also featured on the calendar’s cover. Each year, twelve Law Enforcement K9s who are recipients of vests provided by...

Reid Fogler grew up surrounded by conversations of real estate. He watched what individuals in the industry were doing and the impact they had on the larger business scene at hand. When he went away to school, Reid noticed how the rich kids seemed to always have parents who were connected back to real estate...

The University of Florida led the way in indoor mask compliance among six universities participating in a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study of mask use on campuses during the COVID-19 pandemic. At UF, 98% of those observed wore a mask, and 95% of those wore their mask correctly. The study found mask...

GrayRobinson, P.A. (GrayRobinson), a full-service law and lobbying firm with 14 offices located across Florida and one in Washington, D.C., has announced it is expanding its Gainesville footprint with new office space in the Innovation District. On March 1, 2021, GrayRobinson will be moving to a new Gainesville office, a 3,620 square-foot office suite in...

Every friendship experiences different phases. For childhood friends Kyle Lampkin and Michael Behfar, one of those phases included starting an on-demand laundry service — Laundr.  Growing up in Miami, Florida, Kyle and Michael met when they were 12 years old. They stayed connected as they went to college — separately attending the University of Central...