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The Board of the Children’s Trust of Alachua County authorized the release of the Request for Proposal (RFP) for up to $500,000 in new money for summer activities for Alachua County children.  “The Trust heard the voice of the people and provided money so that more kids can enjoy this summer by learning, exploring, engaging,...

Born and raised in Gainesville, Charlie Delatorre rarely goes to the grocery store without running into someone he knows. But this isn’t just where his family is — Gainesville is also where his entrepreneurial spirit took root. When he was in college at the University of Florida, he took his $5 an hour law firm...

Campbell Spellicy Engineering, a locally-owned, full-service mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering firm, was recently selected to design the mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire systems for The Swamp Restaurant’s brand new location. After closing their doors at their original location in June of 2020, The Swamp Restaurant recently revealed plans to re-create the former building at...

UF Health Jacksonville and one of the nation’s premiere institutions dedicated to helping veterans, first responders and their families — the Gary Sinise Foundation — are now working together to bring comprehensive brain health care to Northeast Florida. The Gary Sinise Foundation Avalon Network will help UF Health provide transformative care to veterans and first...

Call2Recycle recognized Alachua County as a 2020 Top 100 Leader in Sustainability. The Leader in Sustainability award is given annually to top-performing Call2Recycle program participants who excel with their battery recycling efforts.  As a 2020 award recipient, Call2Recycle is recognizing the County through a tree donation to the National Forest Foundation’s ‘50 Million for Our...

Every ten episodes, the WHOA GNV podcast creates a mastermind episode to dive into a topic with multiple people and a little more time. After recent guests fueling Collin and Mike’s fire for money management, it was clear what the 140th episode would be — investing.  Joining them for their mastermind on all things money...

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.,...