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Opinion: It’s time for Old Joe to move

Downtown Gainesville's Old Joe statue has been damaged as the rifle barrel has been sawed off. - photo by Scott Rogers

05012021 OLDJOE 3.jpg — Downtown Gainesville's Old Joe statue has been damaged as the rifle barrel has been sawed off. - photo by Scott Rogers

It is fall in Gainesville, the weather is cooler, the leaves are falling from the trees and this allows us to go to the square in downtown Gainesville and see “Old Joe” in all his glory.