Historic Thomas Center Wins Couples' Choice Award
The Historic Thomas Center has been selected as a 2019 winner of WeddingWire.com’s Couples’ Choice Award. This is the sixth consecutive year that the venue has been recognized. The WeddingWire Couples’ Choice Awards® recognize the top five percent of wedding venues nationwide from the WeddingWire network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism....
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Conservation Trust Honors Local Stewards
Alachua Conservation Trust hosted the 20th Annual Conservation Stewards Awards this month at Prairie Creek Lodge. Since 2000, Alachua Conservation Trust (ACT) honors “Conservation Stewards,” the individuals in our community who have made the cultural and environmental protection of North Central Florida a priority in their lives. This year’s Honorees were John McPherson and Lu...
WUFT and the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network Receive CPB Community Lifeline Award
WUFT-TV/FM and the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network (FPREN) were recently honored with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) Community Lifeline Award for providing extensive coverage and non-stop emergency information during Hurricanes Michael, Irma and Matthew. The Community Lifeline Award recognizes public media stations that provide outstanding service to their communities during local emergencies, natural...
Alachua County Economic Indicators Report Released for March 2019
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) have released January employment and unemployment estimates, as well as revised historical data. Click the button below to view the full report. [button bgcolor=”#” hoverbg=”#0c3b60″ textcolor=”#” texthcolor=”#fff” bordercolor=”#” hoverborder=”#” size=”big” align=”center” link=”https://brncf.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Alachua-County-Monthly-Economic-Indicators-March-2019.pdf” target=”_blank” radius=”0″ outer_border_color=”#” icon_color=”#”]View the...
UF Study Questions Accuracy of CMS Opioid Safeguard
A new study by University of Florida researchers questions the accuracy of the criteria used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to identify patients at risk of opioid abuse and overdose. The CMS launched its Overutilization Monitoring System, or OMS, in 2013 to identify such high-risk patients among the millions of beneficiaries who...
Gainesville Has Been Named One of the 2019 Top 100 Best Places to Live by Livability
Gainesville has been named one of the 2019 Top 100 Best Places to Live by Livability.com, outpacing more than 1,000 cities (with populations between 20,000 and 1,000,000) in this data-driven ranking. The 2019 rankings were guided by an exclusive study conducted by Livability.com in partnership with Ipsos. More than 1,000 millennials across the country...
Weekend of Food and Wine Includes an Intimate Seminar with Marc Mondavi!
Gainesville’s own, Embers Wood Grill and Spark invite you to spend three days indulging in gourmet cuisine, fine wines and live music at our third annual Embers Wood Grill Wine & Food Festival! Start the weekend on Friday, March 22 with our Winemaker’s Dinner at Embers Wood Grill. Award-winning and talented Executive Chef Briton Dumas...
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Health Colleges Help Fuel UF’s Overall Rise in National Graduate Program Rankings
The University of Florida College of Medicine made substantial gains in its primary care ranking while remaining the No. 1 overall medical school in Florida and again securing a place among the nation’s best medical schools in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of graduate schools. The College of Nursing’s doctoral program — No....