Police got the first call early Thursday.
Lt. Keith Lingerfelt says the caller reported a bear in the Green Street Circle area. He says the first units spotted the bear on the front lawn of the First Baptist Church, a few blocks from where the caller reported seeing it.
Officers with the state Department of Natural Resources were called and the bear was last seen about noon heading into a kudzu-filled ravine in an area behind the church around Forrest Avenue.
It was the second reported bear sighting in the Gainesville area in a week. Last week, a resident of Spring Haven Drive in west Gainesville reported spotted one.
That sighting came just a couple of weeks after an adult bear and a cub were reported in the Chattahoochee Country Club area north of town. (See earlier story.)
Bear spotted in on Spring Haven Dr. last week. (This photo and others with this story courtesy Martha Rider)
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