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By Ron Wayne Fans of Jeanne Bunting’s repurposed jewelry will be glad to see her return to the GFAA Winter Fine Arts Fair at Tioga Town Center next month. This will be her sixth time selling at the fair, which this year will be held Friday through Sunday, March 4-6. She will be among 115...

Alachua County schools will ask voters to renew a one mill assessment for schools in Alachua County. The school system will be asking voters to renew the one mill initiative that is currently funding critical programs and services in local schools. At its meeting on January 19, the School Board of Alachua County approved a...

Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV) continues its growth trend with record passenger traffic to finish calendar year 2015. According to numbers reported by the airlines, 18,562 passengers flew out of the local airport last month. The annual total came to 217,355, more than two percent above 2014 and 892 passengers more than the previous record set...

BioTork, LLC, a Florida-based biotechnology company has created a sustainable, GMO-free, vegan omega-3 oil produced from algae. This omega-3 oil will be launched in the nutraceutical, feed and food industries worldwide as a direct replacement to fish oil. Until now, the performance of algae has been either improved through genetic modification or rely on wild...

The number of tech companies moving to Innovation Square continues to grow with the arrival of a UF professor’s large-scale data processing and security company. Tera Insights, previously located in the Sun Center in downtown Gainesville, will relocate with an aim to attract more clients, create more jobs, expand its office space, and be closer...

By: Ron Wayne Who was frank and why will hundreds of people gather in downtown Gainesville in February because of him? Frank Karel, a University of Florida graduate, was a public interest communicator who worked for 30 years for groups like the Robert Wood Johnson and Rockefeller foundations. The frank conference (lower case and italicized)...

The City of Gainesville will be expanding the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), as part of the on-going Smart Traffic project beginning in 2016. Expanding the current system will require large concrete poles ranging in size between thirty and one-hundred feet in height in five locations.  These poles will allow traffic signals that are outside the...

The John Templeton Foundation has awarded $184,000 to the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida to share their creativity and science programs with a national audience. Named in honor of the late Dr. J. Robert Cade – the lead inventor of Gatorade – the Cade Museum exists to inspire creative thinking, future...

Governor Rick Scott announced that USR Systems, a U.S.-based IT consulting services company, will be expanding in Gainesville to create 140 new jobs. USR Systems specializes in mobility, cloud enablement, digital transformation, business intelligence, data analytics and testing. The new positions will support USR’s goal of ultimately building a delivery center in Gainesville. Governor Scott...

Steven T. DeKosky, M.D., has been appointed interim executive director for the Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida. DeKosky, a prominent Alzheimer’s disease researcher and UF alumnus, came to UF in July as the institute’s deputy director and a professor of neurology in the College of Medicine. He...