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Our sources say this is great fun: “Carmina Burana,” by Dance Alive National Ballet, 7:30 p.m. at the Phillips Center, 3201 Hull Road. Tickets $22-42, $17 for children.

Gainesville residents will soon have the option to rent public bicycles at a low rate, thanks to a city partnership with Zagster, a bike-rental enterprise that recently brought the program to Lakeland.

More than $1.8 million has been set aside to build a new Tumblin' Creek watershed management facility to help control the water quality of Bivens Arm lake.

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Haile Village Center’s Patticakes will debut its second location at the renovated Bo Diddley Plaza, Gainesville City commissioners decided Thursday, approving a lease agreement.

They call him standard man, or “Stan” for short.

Kipp Hayes said his food truck would likely open in the next 45 to 60 days on a vacant lot in the southeast corner of Northeast Eighth Avenue and 15th Street.

Critics have called for Gov. Rick Scott to veto recently passed legislation that would overhaul Florida’s divorce policies, but local lawyers say judges still could have some flexibility in alimony and custody issues even if the bill becomes law.

Idylwild Elementary School will have a pep rally and fun run this morning for students to support Kylie Galloway-Soto, a fourth-grader fighting Hodgkin lymphoma.

A federal court will hear arguments next week in Congresswoman Corrine Brown's battle against a redistricting plan that would force her to run in a dramatically reshaped district stretching across 200 miles of North Florida.