{"id":183875,"date":"2026-03-09T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183875\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:37:09","slug":"your-stories-to-look-out-for-in-north-central-florida-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183875\/","title":{"rendered":"Your stories to look out for in North Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Alachua County commissioner Ken Cornell on Tuesday hopes to get an update on animal services. The HR director announced an investigation is underway into conditions at the shelter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Also on Tuesday, Union County School board discusses difficult decisions over cutting the budget, including what they call \u201cRestructuring\u201d Lake Butler Middle School and Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/03\/02\/week-ahead-your-stories-look-out-north-central-florida\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/03\/02\/week-ahead-your-stories-look-out-north-central-florida\/\">The Week Ahead: Your stories to look out for in North Central Florida<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After months of meetings, feedback, and recriminations, the Alachua County School Board on Thursday holds a final vote on new school district zoning boundaries. The plan calls for closing four elementary schools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The three-day Wildflowers Music festival kicks off at a new venue in Melrose. Many in the community had asked county leaders to keep it from happening but they approved it and then supported it with tax dollars.<\/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; Alachua County commissioner Ken Cornell on Tuesday hopes to get an update on animal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12513,28,30,29,31686,4735,29908,4043,38930,86610],"class_list":["post-183875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alachua-county","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-music-festival","tag-ncfl","tag-rezoning","tag-school-board","tag-week-ahead","tag-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183875","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=183875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}