The board authorized a new 950-student campus combining Belleview Elementary and Belleview-Santos Elementary, along with the first phase of a major cooling system upgrade at Belleview Middle School.
The Marion County School Board approved roughly 1% raises for non-represented employees after discussing tight budgets, inflation, and more than $50 million in annual general-fund shortfalls for transportation and exceptional student education.
MIM Ocala Run Club: How a 5 a.m. gathering grew from 2 friends to 200-plus runners.
Skip the chains and discover popular, independently owned restaurants in and around The Villages that locals and reviewers consistently praise for their food, atmosphere, and character.
A water main break trapped two in a trench in The Villages; one has been airlifted as a trauma alert.
Ocala City Council has approved both requests since 2022 to waive its one-year rezoning waiting period, most recently allowing a new owner to seek commercial zoning on land just approved for homes.
Ocala City Council approved former City Attorney Robert Batsel Jr.’s request to represent developers seeking to rezone land inside the Heath Brook Development of Regional Impact from residential to commercial use.
Owner Don Gulling launched the new American comfort-food concept on October 20 and held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on November 4 at the 1920s building that once housed a horse-feed store long before it was foodie favorite La Cuisine.
The unanimous vote changes the 2.8-acre lot from limited neighborhood business to standard neighborhood business zoning and lifts old restrictions that banned alcohol uses and capped building size.
Foxwood Farms, a 55-and-older mobile home community in Ocala, will switch from its package treatment plant to the city’s central sewer under a state-funded project expected to cut thousands of pounds of nitrogen from Rainbow Springs each year.