Ocala Gazette

Motorists are advised that southbound Interstate 75 will briefly narrow to one lane nightly approaching the Southwest 66th Street bridge beginning July 27 for bridge demolition. This will occur from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. each night through Thursday and will resume the following Sunday. During this nighttime demolition work, southbound traffic will merge from […]

Jennifer Martinez, the Executive Director of Marion Senior Services, speaks during a Community Foundation for Ocala/Marion County Give4Marion event in this file photo. [Bruce Ackerman/Ocala Gazette file photo]. Marion Senior Services (MSS), the nonprofit vendor operating Marion Transit, is actively working to transition its paratransit contract to another entity by the end of...

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As Marion County commissioners review the proposed 2026-2027 budget, outside agencies that receive grants to provide services to the county recently came before the commission to press their cases. Many of the agency representatives who addressed the commission on July 16 requested continued financial support for their work serving vulnerable populations such as children and ...

Some 400 years ago, a member of the Indigenous Potano-Timucua tribe scooped up some clay and carefully molded it into a modest vessel, small enough to rest in the palm of their hand. You can imagine their fingers pressing a tight crease around the pot’s simple rim and smoothing its dull grey surface, leaving it […]