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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...

Dan Drotos & Mike Ryals formerly of The Drotos Ryals Group, successfully facilitated the closing of the two remaining Walker Furniture buildings located at 113 NW 8th Avenue and 13 NW 8th Avenue Gainesville, FL 32601. The sale closed on May 22, 2020. All three buildings sold for $2,700,000 in a two-part closing. Dan &...

“The home sales statistics for April are in for the Gainesville/Alachua County Area and there are several optimistic data points,” says Jeremy Thomas, 2020 Gainesville-Alachua County Association of REALTORS (GACAR) President. “I’ve been anxiously waiting for this data,” Thomas said. According to Thomas there was a pause in real estate activity in early April but...

They drive the buses. They keep the lights on. They collect the garbage. In the face of the biggest public health emergency of the last century, they tirelessly do the hundreds of jobs, big and small, that keep a city operating efficiently. University of Florida Health is expanding novel coronavirus testing to include all city...