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The Alachua County Community Remembrance Project committee (ACCRP), the Alachua County Commission, and the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, with support from the Rothman Fund, recently unveiled the “Soil Collection Jar Exhibit Honoring Victims of Lynching.” The County Commission has dedicated space on the ground floor of the county building for this poignant exhibit on racial violence. Each jar contains soil collected at known sites where lynchings took place. This exhibit is

This morning, Alachua County Fire Rescue held a ribbon cutting for the new ACFR Training Center, located in the old Tax Collector Building off of 441. This new state-of-the-art center will provide training space for the next generation of Fire Rescue recruits and help keep the citizens of Alachua County safe. A class of 29 new recruits started their training there this week. | Alachua County