Plucky giant chicken finds new roost in Riverside
Snacker has a new home, her fourth in the past seven years, but this one is her forever home. The giant orange chicken recently flew the coop from Hemming Park, where she has been on display since April 2016, staring at park visitors and passers-by from between her scrawny chicken legs when she wasn’t gawking […]
Pi Day takes on new meaning at Landon Middle School
It is not in Timothy Feagins’ job description to be duct-taped high up on the wall of the cafeteria and pelted with whipped cream pies, but as principal of Julia Landon College Preparatory School, Feagins didn’t seem to mind. “Anything for the kids,” he said. Throwing pies in Feagins’ face during lunch in the school […]
Elite runners visit Sanctuary on 8th, thrill students and teachers
Some of the top-ranked runners in the world visited children in the afterschool program at Sanctuary on 8th Street on March 10 to share stories about their love of running and to participate with the kids in a fun-filled relay race. As has become a tradition over the past eight years, Richard Clark Fannin, coordinator […]
Opening Day never gets old
[su_slider source=”media: 36330,36329,36332,36331″ link=”lightbox” width=”620″ height=”420″] Little pitchers, catchers and fielders were suited up and ready for baseball season to begin March 11 at Opening Day for the Murray Hill Athletic Association. Drawing from nearby Ruth N. Upson Elementary School, students and staff participated in the festivities, which included a parade of teams, a flag-raising […]
The Way We Were – Corky and Kit Thomas
It’s amazing Kit and Corky Thomas of San Marco didn’t meet a whole lot earlier than 1982 when the couple – both single parents of daughters – went on their first date to a Florida-Georgia football game. Kit, whose maiden name was Bunch, grew up in San Marco, while Corky lived his childhood years across […]
The Way We Were – Hayes and Norma Basford
On a Sunday afternoon in the early 1940s, Hayes Basford, Jr., his father and maybe a couple of friends would saddle up their horses at the Basford home on five acres between Prunty Avenue and Tunis Street in Murray Hill for a 10- or 15-mile jaunt. “We would cut through the woods, cross Cassat and […]
Southbank apartment complex construction right on track
Except for a “couple of weeks” delay due to Hurricane Matthew, construction on Alliance Residential’s Broadstone River House $26.6 million Southbank housing complex has been progressing pretty much according to plan. “Things have been going along smoothly,” said Tim Graff, vice president of development for Alliance Residential. Planned for the site, which is adjacent to […]
Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center construction on schedule
Steel fabrication continues on a new addition to the Baptist MD Anderson Cancer, with the frame of the nine-story structure expected to be finished within the next three to four months. When the addition is completed, projected for spring 2018, the new 330,000-square-foot facility will be connected via a skybridge to the current Baptist MD […]
