{"id":165437,"date":"2026-02-23T09:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165437\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:52:11","slug":"your-stories-to-look-out-for-in-north-central-florida-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165437\/","title":{"rendered":"Your stories to look out for in North Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Monday through Thursday, the Marion County Clerk of Court is hosting marriage license and passport day events. They\u2019ll be open longer hours, letting residents get new passports, photos for those passports, and marriage licenses. Appointments are required for all those services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Newt Perry is being honored with his very own star in the Ocala Walk of Fame. Perry is a swimmer from Ocala, who city leaders say is a pioneer in underwater filmmaking. They\u2019ll unveil his star on the walk of fame starting at noon on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/02\/16\/week-ahead-your-stories-look-out-north-central-florida-2\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/02\/16\/week-ahead-your-stories-look-out-north-central-florida-2\/\">The Week Ahead: Your stories to look out for in North Central Florida<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This Friday, TV20\u2019s Hawah Ezell and Ryan Hayes will emcee the Education Foundation\u2019s Gala at the UF Hilton Conference Center. The event is a fundraiser supporting education in Alachua County. They\u2019re giving money to several nonprofits, grants and scholarships. Tickets are $150. The event starts at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Monday through Thursday, the Marion County Clerk of Court is hosting marriage license and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12513,78794,28,30,29,2496,3833,4735,2649,38930],"class_list":["post-165437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alachua-county","tag-education-gala","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gainesville","tag-marion-county","tag-ncfl","tag-ocala","tag-week-ahead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}