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Hawk caused South Hall power outage
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From staff reports
Updated: Aug 2, 2011, 3:52 PM
Published: Aug 2, 2011, 2:25 PM

A hawk put 9,000 people in South Hall out of power this morning after it landed on equipment inside a substation and caused a short, Jackson EMC spokeswoman Bonnie Jones said.

The electricity provider’s Spout Springs Road substation was back online by about 10:45 a.m. after a 40 minute outage for about 4,000 customers and a shorter outage for others.
This Gainesville landfill could get 134-acre expansion. Here's what you need to know
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A map by the City of Gainesville annotated by The Times showing the planned 134-acre expansion of a privately owned landfill.
Ben Anderson
The Times
Updated: Apr 7, 2025, 8:34 PM
Published: Apr 7, 2025, 8:16 PM
A privately owned Gainesville landfill could expand by more than 130 acres if a pair of rezoning and annexation requests gets the OK from city officials.
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