Kristine Crane
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What's best for Rodman Dam?
In the northwest corner of the Ocala National Forest lies a graveyard of tree stumps standing in a vast bed of stagnant water. → Read More
Permit for chicken slaughterhouse passes 3-2
OCALA - On a 3-2 vote, the Marion County Commission on Tuesday approved a special-use permit for a poultry harvesting facility on the Adena Springs property owned by billionaire Frank Stronach. → Read More
Marion commission to vote Tuesday on Stronach's chicken slaughterhouse
OCALA - When billionaire businessman and cattle ranch developer Frank Stronach asked for a permit to harvest pigs, sheep and chickens at his Adena Springs ranch in northwest Marion County, he was met with profound public concern. → Read More
Plan sets out projects, strategies to help Rainbow Springs Basin
DUNNELLON --- Reducing the nitrate levels in the Rainbow Springs Basin will be a long process, but it got kick-started Thursday afternoon at a meeting to discuss the final Basin Management Action Plan (BMAP.) → Read More
Reducing nitrates priority in Rainbow Springs plan
Public awareness is crucial to fewer nitrates reaching the Floridan aquifer, Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials said while presenting their draft Basin Management Action Plan (BMAP) for Rainbow Springs on Thursday afternoon at the Dunnellon Public Library. → Read More
Debate continues over Confederate flag in Marion County
Confederate flags have fallen like dominoes all over the South during the past two months, following the late June massacre of nine African-Americans in a Charleston church by a gunman who carried the flag as a symbol of hatred. → Read More
State outlines plan to protect Silver Springs
That was the question that Mary Paulic, an environmental consultant at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, posed to a group of about 75 environmental activists and concerned citizens at the Marion County Public Library in Ocala on Thursday afternoon. Most of them already knew that a BMAP is more than a cool sounding acronym. They came eager for more information on the state's… → Read More
Group protests restoration of rebel flag at Marion County complex
OCALA - A small group of Marion County residents held a protest Wednesday morning near the Confederate flag that has been returned to the front of the McPherson Governmental Complex. → Read More
Marion parks director Gina Peebles follows Lee Niblock to Alachua County
Gina Peebles, who was director of the Parks and Recreation Department of Marion County for six and a half years, started her new job as administrative services director in Alachua County on Monday. → Read More
Police say pair staged car theft
A Gainesville woman was arrested Saturday after police say she falsely reported that her vehicle was stolen. → Read More
Warmth, sunshine to return this week
Early morning fog followed by partly sunny conditions are expected in the area early this week, with the sun expected to fully break through on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. → Read More
UF researchers create simulators that produce 3-D models for training
Researcher Didier Rajon lifted the top of the printer in a ground-floor laboratory at the University of Florida's McKnight Brain Institute and dusted off an unusual item: an ear. → Read More
Robot arm lends new precision to knee surgery
Gwen Parrish of Gainesville grew up bow-legged. Over time, that caused damage to the inside of Parrish's knee cap, so for about a decade, the 56-year-old's knee caps have been wearing down to the point of bone-on-bone pain. → Read More
Robot arm lends new precision to knee surgery
Gwen Parrish of Gainesville grew up bow-legged. Over time, that caused damage to the inside of Parrish's knee cap, so for about a decade, the 56-year-old's knee caps have been wearing down to the point of bone-on-bone pain. → Read More
'The big day' arrives for bride with cancer
Wedding planner Megan Johnson of Adore Events is “entrenched,” she said, in Gainesville’s wedding season. → Read More
Ex-reporter says U.S. mental health system has failed us
“Dad, how would you feel if someone you loved killed themselves?” → Read More
UF small animal vet credits pet experience for saving her life
When Dr. Sarah Boston was doing her nightly ritual of rubbing moisturizing cream on her neck a few years ago, she felt something that was new but all too familiar: a 2-centimeter-sized mass. → Read More
M.S. patients here hope for access to drug that works
When Robert “Buddy” Allen could no longer run after a Frisbee, he thought the cause was an old childhood injury -- when he got hit by a car. → Read More
New coffee shop is therapy of sorts for veterans
In north Gainesville, just past the intersection of State Road 121 and U.S. 441, is a stretch of offices that until Friday has gone without the one thing that’s synonymous with office culture: a coffee shop. → Read More
After 332 days, teen artificial heart recipient leaves Shands
Nalexia “Lexi” Henderson’s birthday present came a couple days early. → Read More