Pherson Recreation Complex News Today

The Lincoln Estates neighborhood in Gainesville will have a new public space for residents to enjoy this coming June. The Lincoln Yard Trail at 2099 SE Eighth Ave. will be a new park containing a one-third-mile walking trail, a stormwater pond, a playground and an adult fitness station.

A gathering in celebration of Easter on Sunday evening later turned into a party of between 1,500 and 2,000 people crowding into downtown Gainesville neighborhoods, with damages left at a city-owned baseball field.   The Easter celebration began at the Martin Luther King Jr. Multipurpose Center, 1028 NE 14th St., before a group of people began driving motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles in the ballfield at nearby T.B. McPherson Recreation Complex, 1717 SE 15th St.  City spokeswoman Rossana P...