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BOCC to hear Planning & Zoning applications on Mondays. County officials have been so busy in the past three years reviewing development projects that a separate day for hearing applications is slated in the new year.
Marion County School Board decides against allowing chaplains in …
Dec 11, 2024 · Marion County will not implement a policy of allowing chaplains in public schools after the Marion County School Board declined to implement a measure similar to the statewide school chaplain initiative pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. All four of the citizens who spoke at the Dec. 10 board meeting opposed introducing chaplains into local schools, citing concerns over religious freedom…
Holiday hilarity - Ocala Gazette
Dec 4, 2024 · Four years ago, John Allsopp landed back in Ocala after he built a 30-year career as a working actor in Los Angeles, where he performed in more than 20 national commercials and many films and television shows. His claims to theatrical fame include acting in “CSI,” “General Hospital,” “All My Children,” “Lizzie McGuire” and “Murder, She Wrote.” An Ocala native,…
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December 13, 2024 digital edition - Ocala Gazette
Dec 13, 2024 · Support community journalism. The first goal of the Ocala Gazette is to deliver trustworthy local journalism so corruption, misinformation and abuse are not hidden from the public or unchallenged.
Genuine collaboration - Ocala Gazette
Dec 3, 2024 · The notes indicate that, “Ironically, in 2008 it was Cara’s extended hiatus away from horses caused by her blossoming photography and graphic design career that ultimately became the catalyst for Cara to recombine her purposefully unearthed passion for all things equestrian with her hard-earned visual arts prowess.
Southwest Marion high school project is $29 million over budget
Dec 5, 2024 · Recent estimates show that the new southwest Marion County high school project is more than $29 million over budget, caused in part by a delay from the school board’s debate over choosing a contractor during the botched procurement process. The total anticipated costs for High School “CCC” have racked up to $164,777,011, $153,930,244 of which consists of construction costs, said…
Ocala Gazette Podcast — December 27, 2024 – January 2, 2025
Nov 7, 2024 · Ocala Gazette Podcast episode for the week of December 27, 2024. In this week's episode, we examine how Marion County and City of Ocala deconsolidated fire/medical dispatch in 2019 and how they continue to use different computer aided dispatch (CAD) programs, likely impacting the effectiveness of response times in the city …
National Guard to Continue Aiding Prisons - Ocala Gazette
Dec 9, 2024 · More than two years after activating members of the Florida National Guard to work at state prisons, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed an executive order that will continue the practice for six more months. DeSantis issued an initial executive order in September 2022 to activate National Guard ...
Better together - Ocala Gazette
Dec 16, 2024 · Quincy and Craig McCoy planned, like many couples, to renew their wedding vows on their 30th wedding anniversary, which was Dec. 26, 2022. But the vow renewal ceremony would have to wait. Quincy, 55, an Ocala native, was diagnosed in 2021 with triple negative stage four breast cancer and would undergo a double mastectomy and an aggressive chemotherapy program that…