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The May sales report is in and the data is sending mixed signals. May 2020 sales are down 28% compared to May 2019. “Even though closings are down, I’m encouraged by some of the other numbers,” said Jeremy Thomas, President of the Gainesville-Alachua County Association of REALTORS. “Prices seem to be holding, properties are selling,...

The Alachua County Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Training Initiative was recently recognized with an Achievement Award from the National Association of Counties (NACo). The Department of Court Services managed this Initiative. This responsibility was granted in recognition of the Department’s prior experience in helping MHFA training be expanded to local criminal justice agencies under...

University of Florida Health Shands Children’s Hospital is nationally ranked in three pediatric medical specialties as part of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospital rankings for 2020-21 released today. The rankings extend a remarkable run of national recognition for the programs. UF Health’s  pediatric cardiology, pulmonology and endocrinology programs have been ranked among...

By Rick Burke, Navy Office of Community Outreach A native of Gainesville, Florida, is serving aboard one of the nation’s newest and most versatile combat ships, the future USS Kansas City. Petty Officer 1st Class Aaron Dampier is a 2009 Hawthorne High School graduate. According to Dampier, the values required to succeed in the Navy...

Alachua County Information and Technology Services (ITS) Department was awarded a 2020 Achievement Award for its Water Quality Field Testing App. The App was developed to replace several paper-based data collection tasks as well as to automate manual reporting tasks required to maintain one of our community’s most valuable resources: clean, safe water. The application...

The Board of Directors for Keep Florida Beautiful (KFB), one of the largest volunteer-based community organizations in the Sunshine State, has announced the appointment of Savanna Christy as Executive Director. Savanna came to KFB from the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission in February 2019 and served as Program Coordinator, assisting with the daily operations...

A new study by University of Florida researchers aims to identify a drug or drugs that can potentially be used to prevent and/or treat infection with COVID-19 by interfering with a known behavior of the virus — the way it binds to its cellular receptor, facilitating transmission to the respiratory system. The receptor — angiotensin-converting...

Students from across UF Health have teamed up to assess and meet the needs of Gainesville’s citizens through the creation of a new organization, the UF chapter of the COVID-19 Student Service Corps. Initially designed by students and faculty at Columbia University, the corps aims to support health systems, patients, the workforce and the communities...

The Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association has announced the outcome of its annual election of Board Members and President-Elect Designate. The Eighth Judicial Circuit consists of Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Levy, and Union Counties in North Central Florida.   The following are the 2020-2021 EJCBA Officers and Directors: President: Philip Kabler, Esq. President-Elect: Evan Gardiner,...

The COVID19 pandemic quickly evolved from a health crisis to a severe economic one, shuttering many businesses, with dramatic effects specifically in the Leisure and Hospitality industry, and across many other industry sectors, in a local, nationwide and worldwide effort to slow the spread of the virus. In the last 10 weeks, the U.S. economy...