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Saturday, May 23, 2026

The Gainesville Ledger

Half a Century Cold

By Craft Lemon

More than two dozen unsolved homicides. Eleven missing people. A former mayoral candidate in a Tennessee jail. What Gainesville hasn’t closed, and what the files reveal about who gets searched for. The Gainesville Police Department keeps a list. It runs from 1974 to 2018, give or take. Some entries are paragraphs long. Some are six words and a placeholder photograph because the file is too thin

Spirit Never Flew to Gainesville. Its Collapse Still Will.

By Craft Lemon

The first major U.S. airline failure in 25 years skipped GNV entirely. The math at the airport, and on every Gainesville traveler’s drive to Orlando, is changing anyway. Spirit Airlines never operated a single flight out of Gainesville Regional Airport. The yellow planes did not park here, the orange-uniformed crews never staffed a counter here, the carry-on bag fee never came due here. So when t

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