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​The Watermelon Pond Park boat ramp (10700 SW 250th St., Newberry) is unsafe for vessel launching as water levels at the site have dropped significantly.

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​County sources refuted the claims, saying there is much more context involved surrounding the state report.

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Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies and Alachua County Fire Rescue are at the scene of a brush fire at 2550 SW 91st St.

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​The Alachua County Commission will conduct its regular meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. The meeting is in the Jack Durrance Auditorium on the second floor of the Alachua County Administration Building (12 SE 1st St., Gainesville). The meeting begins at 11:30 a.m. The evening portion begins at 5 p.m.

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​The Alachua County Commission and the City of Archer Commission will conduct a joint meeting on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026, at 6 p.m., in the Archer City Hall Chambers (16870 SW 134th Avenue, Archer).

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​After reviewing Alachua County’s current wildland fire conditions and in consultation with the Florida Forest Service (FFS), the mandatory countywide burn ban has been extended and will remain in effect through Feb. 13, 2026.

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​The University of Florida issued guidance to students and staff after the Florida Department of Health confirmed two cases of measles in Alachua County.

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​Alachua County Fire Rescue crews provided emergency medical care after a man was run over around 11 a.m. on Thursday. He later died at the hospital.

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​The Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) voted on Tuesday to reallocate $100,000 in small farmer grants to be used by farmers markets in the county. The vote comes after a survey of eight markets conducted late last year and collecting 338 responses (56 from vendors and 282 from visitors).  

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​Multiple fire crews responded to a kitchen fire in a cabin at Lochloosa Fish Camp on Tuesday morning.

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​After pivoting to operate its own metropolitan transportation planning organization, Alachua County and Gainesville leaders discussed what that new organization will look like and be called at their Monday regular meeting. 

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​Multiple fire crews responded to a kitchen fire in a cabin at Lochloosa Fish Camp on Tuesday morning.

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​​Crews say the fire spread up the wall and into the attic space of a cabin at Lochloosa Fish Camp in Hawthorne around eight this morning. Officials say they were able to save the building.

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​At a special meeting on February 3, the Alachua County Commission moved forward with the Farm Stop concept and asked staff to look into implementing Food is Medicine for County employees. 

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​​At about 8 a.m. on February 3, crews from Alachua County Fire Rescue, Melrose Fire Department, and Cross Creek Fire Department responded to a report of a commercial building fire at Lochloosa Fish Camp. The first arriving unit found a kitchen fire in one of the duplex cabin rentals. The fire had spread up the wall and into the attic space. Crews acted quickly, stopping and extinguishing the fire and saving the structure. 

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