Love for grandmother motivates Boy Scout Eagle project
Nick Snyder, a Boy Scout with Troop 906, can thank his grandmother for his Eagle Scout project. Snyder’s grandmother, Lois Schwinger, has a long-standing relationship of volunteering for Ronald McDonald House and he wanted to do something to benefit them. Snyder enjoys woodworking and has created several other projects in the past, and proposed corn […]
Leadership Family Night encourages habits of effective leadership
Hendricks Avenue Elementary students are not only learning language arts, math, science and history, they are learning to be leaders. As a Leader in Me school, all students from kindergarten through fifth grade develop leadership skills through lessons based on Stephen Covey’s book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” Leadership training doesn’t stop […]
In it for the ‘long’ run
Over 400 students from 19 area high schools, along with more than 100 coaches and running buddies, gathered at Robert E. Lee High School Nov. 17 on a chilly Saturday morning to run seven miles together in a running program called Marathon High. Marathon High incorporates team building, bonding, and running. Students train to run […]
The Way We Were: Helen Brinson Covington & Guy Dietz
You can’t ask more of time spent growing up than to reach retirement years with the kind of memories Helen Brinson Covington and Guy Dietz have about growing up in Lakewood and attending Dupont High school as part of the Class of 1962. “I have nothing but good memories,” Helen said. Guy quickly agreed. Helen’s […]
The Way We Were: Thomas G. Hightower, Sr.
Tom Hightower of Lake Side Park has experienced many joys and sorrows during his 86 years. Born December 18, 1932 in Odum, Georgia, Hightower had a hardscrabble childhood. Times were tough in the rural farm community, then tragedy struck when his grandfather was shot and killed by the father of Tom’s stepsister. Later, in an […]
City Council adopts North San Marco Neighborhood Action Plan
With unanimous support of the City Council’s Land Use and Zoning Committee, the City Planning and Development Department, the San Marco Preservation Society and the San Marco community at large, the Jacksonville City Council approved Ordinance 2018-264, a North San Marco Neighborhood Action Plan, on Dec. 11 by a vote of 19-0. The North San […]
Downtown Dwellers to raise money for Southbank mural
The idea to spruce up the “Little Gray House” came when Peninsula residents Sandra Fradd and Susan Strauss took a stroll on the Southbank Riverwalk last spring. Fradd and Strauss, both organizers of The Downtown Dwellers, took a hard look at the small gray public restroom that also houses an office for the Southbank’s private […]
City to clean up Linden Avenue dump site
The Millers Creek Eco-Restoration project is not the only ecological clean-up operation going on in St. Nicholas. Very soon the City of Jacksonville plans to commence with a Remedial Action Plan to remove contaminated soils from an old dump site in the 1600 block of Linden Avenue. Located on 1.24 acres of land at the […]
