— When Getzen Fowler started working maintenance at Poe Springs in 1951 for 23 cents an hour, it was vastly different than today. The park, then privately owned, had a boardwalk, a concession stand, changing houses and diving boards, said [...]
Photo of my copy — I recently wrapped up Stephen King’s 2001 “memoir of the craft” (better late than never, freshman English class.). In On Writing, the horror master offers the inside scoop about himself, how he climbed the ladder to literary [...]
www.phalanxsystems.com — Phalanx Defense Systems, a Gainesville-based body armor manufacturer, recently tallied its first save when its gear prevented an Illinois police officer from receiving more serious injuries from a shotgun slug. The blast struck David Hakim of the DuPage [...]
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www.nasa.gov — NASA has re-upped its contract with Gainesville-based civil engineering firm Jones Edmunds for work primarily on the space agency’s Space Launch System manned deep-space program. One key solution Jones Edmunds is developing is making sure Kennedy Space [...]
dominos.com — Construction will be done in a week or so on the new Archer Centro West complex in the 3500 and 3600 blocks of Archer Road, said the complex’s owner, Paul D’Alto. Meanwhile, three of the eventual four tenants [...]
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