{"id":329135,"date":"2026-07-04T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329135\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T08:18:12","slug":"fireworks-live-music-and-fundraisers-mark-independence-day-across-north-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329135\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks, live music and fundraisers mark Independence Day across North Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Communities across North Central Florida marked Independence Day with fireworks displays, live music and local events Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The University of Florida\u2019s annual \u201cFanfares and Fireworks\u201d event took place at Flavet Field. Live music warmed up the crowd before fireworks lit up the night sky. Fireworks displays were also held in Williston and Newberry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In Lake City, the Humane Society hosted a fundraiser in honor of Independence Day. Attendees were treated to hot dogs, cupcakes and other snacks.<\/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>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Communities across North Central Florida marked Independence Day with fireworks displays, live music and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135937,28,30,29,135936,135940,135938,135939],"class_list":["post-329135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-fanfares-and-fireworks-university-of-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fourth-of-july-florida-2026","tag-gainesville-fireworks-flavet-field","tag-independence-day-events-north-central-florida","tag-lake-city-humane-society-fundraiser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329135","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=329135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}