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​The state agency deployed eight bulldozers and a helicopter to battle the blaze. Firefighters from Alachua County, Melrose, LaCrosse, and Windsor aided in the effort to put out the fire.

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​Alachua County Fire Rescue units, along with Lacrosse Fire Rescue and Florida Forestry, responded to a small brush fire in the vicinity of CR 225 and CR 1475. Shifting winds moved the fire quickly before it could be contained; the fire grew to 250 acres but was 70% contained earlier this evening. 

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​​There are many events happening around North Central Florida on Memorial Day.

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​Officials with several North Central Florida counties are warning residents about text scams.

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​The Alachua County Victim Services and Rape Crisis Center will offer a free eight-week support group in Spanish for survivors of sexual violence starting on Tuesday, May 27.

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​The city of Alachua and Alachua County agreed during a joint meeting last year to work together to restore the spring. While the city leads the project, Alachua County commissioners made clear they will fully support the project once the city buys the land. One year later, the city is still struggling to fund the project. 

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​Alachua County seeks volunteers to fill two citizen-at-large Local Planning Agency (LPA)/Planning Commission vacancies. The LPA/Planning Commission meets once a month on the third Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Alachua County Administration Building (12 SE 1st St., Gainesville).

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​Other than essential services, all Alachua County offices will be closed on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, 2025.

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​The commissions voted during last year’s joint meeting to explore options for partnering on the project, which, according to a staff presentation, features a six-acre parcel of land appraised at $170,000, one tributary and two springs that flow into Turkey Creek and the Florida aquifer by the Split Rock Sink in San Felasco.

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​The open-house-style workshop aimed to present two significant master-planning efforts and open them up to critique. One is the first countywide Safe Streets and Roads for All action plan — developed in coordination with the city of Gainesville and UF. The other is the Bicycle and Pedestrian master plan, which hasn’t been updated in over 20 years.

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​Leaders in Alachua County announced on Tuesday afternoon that they wanted to alert residents about a road closure due to potential sinkhole activity.

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​May 20th holds deep historical significance in Florida as it marks the day in 1865 when the Emancipation Proclamation was publicly announced in the state. Although President Abraham Lincoln had issued the proclamation on January 1, 1863, it was not until Union troops arrived in Tallahassee and declared freedom for enslaved people on May 20, 1865, that emancipation became a reality in Florida.

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​Due to some cavities opening on CR 239, Public Works has closed CR 239 from NW 222nd Avenue to southbound onto NW 199th Avenue.​

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