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Crestview and Northwest Florida residents are getting ready for a visit from Noirmoutier, France residents

Lori Lightfoot, 59, announced on Tuesday that she asked World Business Chicago 'to suspend Chicago's sister city relationship with Moscow' in light of Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Gainesville sister city program pursues statue construction after initial rejection Students from Gainesville and Duhok, Iraq, worked together on an art submission through a virtual exchange program Graphic by Alex Brown Alachua County called on artists to design art centered around the concept of a megaphone.  The Alachua County Board of County Commissioners received 19 submissions. All were rejected, and a Martin Luther King Jr. statue is now the new artwork concept for the west lawn of the Alachua County Administration Building.  An anonymous citizen offered t...

Above: Listen to a version of this story by Jessica Seldner that aired on WUFT-FM. Some six thousand miles separate the cities of Gainesville, Florida, and Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq, but the two are ready to reignite a long-distance friendship. The two cities are participants in a program called Sister Cities International and on Monday morning signed a renewed sister city agreement. Gainesville Mayor Lauren Poe and Ali Tatar, the governor of Duhok, signed an agreement that establishes mutual friendship and collaboration between the public and private sectors in both cities. Gainesville and Duh...

Go, separating fact from gossip, lindsey graham made a joke last night on the debate stage in the early debate about the fact that he feels that you went on your honeymoon to the soviet union and you never returned. did you go on your honeymoon to the soviet union? >> here's the fact. the fact is that i went to establish a sister city program with now an important city in russia which is still in existence today. the purpose of that trip was a sister city. did it take place after my marriage? it did. i went with i believe ten other people from the city of burlington. the purpose was to establi...