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The state health department reported a local positivity rate of 7.1% for new COVID-19 tests.

Karl Anderson, pastor at Gainesville’s Upper Room Church of God in Christ, said too many people he knows and leaders of his Pentecostal-Holiness Christian denomination have already died or become seriously ill with COVID-19.  “In my denomination alone, we’ve lost so many bishops and leaders and parishioners in 2020,” Anderson said. “We’ve really got to do something about this, and quick.”  Anderson and other leaders at Black churches in east Gainesville and other parts of Alac...

The state health department reported a local positivity rate of 5.16% for new COVID-19 tests.

The state health department reported a local positivity rate of 12.27% for new COVID-19 tests.

Gypsy Road Trip: Early TV museum picture perfect Beverly Kerr ~Motorola RCAs first television on the market, TRK-12, was Steve McVoys initial early television purchase. He found it on eBay in pieces. Collecting became a passion and soon his basement was filled with old television sets. His wife suggested he find another place to store them. Once he discovered an available building, he founded the Early Television Foundation in 2000 at Hilliard, Ohio to preserve the history of television sets. A...

With nearly 200 new COVID-19 cases reported Thursday, Alachua County has reached a total of 17,000 community virus cases.   The state health department noted 196 new cases based on about 3,100 coronavirus test results counted on Wednesday, and the local positivity rate for new cases was 5.73% in the report. No new resident deaths were reported.  Statewide, Florida reported 19,816 new cases — a new record for the highest single-day total. The total case count in the state on in Thursday’...

Alachua County reported one of its highest single-day totals for new COVID-19 cases in Wednesday’s update from the state health department.  The county reported 219 new cases. The last time it came so close with a single-day total was Sept. 12, when 224 new cases were reported a surge following the return of college students to Gainesville for the start of the fall semester. Spring semester classes for the University of Florida resume next week, though Santa Fe College resumed Monday.  The...

Inspecting a boat ramp at the Ocklawaha River’s Rodman Reservoir are Jennifer Carr, president of the Florida Defenders of the Environment, and her daughter, Carmen, and the group’s executive director Jim Gross. Rodman Reservoir is plagued by a chronic growth of muck and floating weeds, as seen here at the boat ramp. Weeds have engulfed the ramp and dock. A legacy of the hasty construction of the dam and reservoir in the 1960s is that it left many trees in the reservoirs boundary. Part 3 of ...

The state health department reported a local positivity rate of 40.93% for new COVID-19 tests.

Alachua County reported 100 new COVID-19 cases in Wednesday’s update from the state health department, with no new resident deaths reported. Alachua County’s new total caseload is 15,674, and the local positivity rate was 6.68% on Tuesday.  Statewide, Florida reported 13,871 new cases — the highest single-day total since July. The total case count in the state on Tuesday was 1,306,123 and the positivity rate for new cases was 8.72%.  The state’s new vaccine report, which provides a by...