Mainstreet’s top feature stories of 2024
Dec 27, 2024
Mainstreet features highlight unique, local stories through year.
Tags: Alachua County
Mainstreet’s top feature stories of 2024
Mainstreet features highlight unique, local stories through year.
Alachua County installs hundreds of “no trucks” signs
Dec 26, 2024
Signs placed across 44 road segments throughout county to improve safety.
A walk through history: 5 significant events in Alachua County
Dec 25, 2024
In its 200 years, Alachua County has seen fire and flood, sickness and prosperity. It has changed in shape and in enterprise, every shift moving the […]
The Silverman tradition continues to flourish through generations
Dec 24, 2024
Proudly Celebrating 90 Years in Business
A road, a fence and a bluff: How Alachua County divided in 1925
Dec 24, 2024
Rumors of split simmered before quickly turning to action.
Local governments to close for holidays, trash collection delayed
Dec 23, 2024
RTS also impacted with reduced services, no service.
Head-on crash kills Bell man, injures 5 Gainesville people on State Road 121
Dec 23, 2024
A 26-year-old Bell man died and five Gainesville people were injured in a head-on collision on Saturday afternoon north of Gainesville on State Road 121 in […]
Gainesville cop sues HCA’s North Florida Hospital for post-op infection
Dec 19, 2024
Kelly Maloney: ‘My career is over.’
Hoggetowne Medieval Faire funds drying up without permanent home
Dec 19, 2024
Downtown edition harder for vendors.
Alachua County begins appeal process for at-large districts referendum
Dec 18, 2024
County says lower court erred in two ways.
Alachua County area to lose federal grant funding after miscommunications
Dec 17, 2024
County commissioner said it's an embarrassment.
Gainesville denies tax break for 7 market rate student apartments
Dec 13, 2024
Opt out part of new Live Local Act.
Released reentry program expands services
Dec 13, 2024
Program to be Alachua County’s first reentry hub for people who have been incarcerated.
Alachua County announces bicentennial celebration kickoff
Dec 13, 2024
County founded on Dec. 29, 1824, and declared 2025 as “Discover 200 Year.”
Alachua County approves racquet club exception, energy efficiency program
Dec 10, 2024
County also lists priorities for Florida Legislature.
City and county advisory boards seek volunteers
Dec 9, 2024
26 positions are open between Gainesville and Alachua County.
Florida’s Amendment 5 to occur automatically for Alachua County residents
Dec 9, 2024
Property exemption starts for 2025 taxes.
Gainesville Black Professionals to dissolve, founder plans new nonprofit
Dec 6, 2024
Grant started group to foster connections.
Matheson kicks off Alachua County Bicentennial with symposium on Saturday
Dec 5, 2024
Event is first of two in December celebrating county’s past.
United Way rebrands, resets its goals
Dec 4, 2024
United Way of North Central Florida (UWNCF) unveiled its new brand and strategy for community involvement on Wednesday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Since April 2023, the […]
I Am Country morning show host dies in head-on collision
Dec 3, 2024
Crash on SW Williston Road on Tuesday morning claims lives of both drivers.
Small sales disappoint Black Friday shoppers
Nov 29, 2024
Post-pandemic crowds back to normal but shoppers want better deals.
