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Alachua County Emerging Leaders unveiled two new bicycle pumps in downtown Gainesville on April 7. The pumps are located next to bike racks installed by the Gainesville Community Redevelopment Association (CRA) at Main Street and First Avenue, and between the Hippodrome and Boca Fiesta. The pumps are the result of a year of collaboration between...

UF held the 2014 College of Medicine Celebration of Research during the first week in April. Events during the week included a poster session displaying more than 400 medical research projects, a keynote address by Jeffrey W. Kelly, Ph.D., the chairman of the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute, and...

National painting studio Painting with a Twist opened its first Gainesville location in early March and celebrated a ribbon cutting on April 2. Painting with a Twist offers people the opportunity to produce a painting, guided by an artist employee, in about two hours for about $35 per person, depending on the painting. The store...

The Community Foundation of North Central Florida held a ribbon cutting for its new facility on Wednesday with a crowd of more than 100 business and nonprofit leaders in attendance. The foundation is a nonprofit with the mission of promoting and facilitating philanthropy in the region. Recent donations facilitated through the program include the $1...

Students from Buchholz High School’s Future Business Leaders of America program brought home multiple awards from the organization’s recent state conference. Six members were awarded first place in their competition category and 14 now qualify for the upcoming national competition. Buccholz was represented by 52 students out of 3,500 in attendance at the Orlando competition....

Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 4,166,667 common stock shares at a price to the public of $12 per share, before underwriting discounts, on March 26. AGTC is a clinical-stage biotechnology company that uses its proprietary gene therapy platform to develop products for patients with severe inherited orphan...

Gainesville’s local station, TV-20, developed a creative way to cover a hot topic while skirting around broadcast restrictions. These restrictions prevent the station from airing highlight reels until the day after the big game. So instead, the staff of TV-20 recreated the biggest plays of the game to anchorman Zach Aldridge’s commentary. Hundreds of thousands...

  Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) will debut a new wireless meter reading system at Savion Park, Gainesville’s newest apartment complex near the University of Florida. Owned and managed by Trimark Properties’ Gainesville Apartments team, Savion Park will be the first apartment complex to feature the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) system. Savion Park Luxury Apartments will...

  The Gainesville Chamber will visit Washington D.C. on April 10 and 11 to represent the issues and concerns affecting the Gainesville region during a series of meetings with policymakers and other stakeholders. “Ensuring our concerns and issues are being heard on a national level better enables the Gainesville region to become a global hub...

  The University of Florida College of Education improved nine spots to No. 21 among public education colleges in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings of America’s Best Graduate Schools, which were announced today. The UF college was rated 30th overall, 10 spots higher than last year. U.S. News also rated two College of...