WUFT News

Gainesville attorney Jeff Childers filed an emergency petition against Alachua County
Public Schools for its mask mandate. He said it goes against the state’s updated emergency rule.

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan at the end of August quickly divided both politicians and
the public, but at a parade last weekend in Newberry, people set politics aside to
celebrate the return of local veterans who had been serving in Afghanistan.

City and county officials voted yesterday to pursue an Urgent Care facility for the east side of
Gainesville. The partnership would be with UF Health on the first building for a 13-acre
development off Hawthorne Road.