City addresses flooding on Pennsylvania Avenue
San Marco residents who live on Pennsylvania Avenue near Hendricks Avenue Elementary School will finally get relief from backyard flooding. Construction has begun to install new drainage pipes along the rear of several house lots along Pennsylvania Avenue to alleviate the severe flooding, which has caused significant damage to garages and homes on the […]
Students strut their stuff for ribbon-cutting ceremony
The artistic talents of many Douglas Anderson students were on display Sept. 10 during the ribbon-cutting ceremony to commemorate the new $13 million addition to the prestigious arts school. DA’s wind symphony greeted guests with Olympic Fanfare by John Williams before the hour-long VIP-studded ceremony, which took place in front of the new 60,000-square-foot […]
Pansy Watts Helms
While Pansy Helms, 77, of Ortega Farms, has fond memories of moving into her tidy cul-de-sac neighborhood near Timuquana Road with her husband Doyle and two young children in 1971, she didn’t appreciate what her children had to go through for school. The Helms were unhappy that their children had to attend so many […]
Despite accident, no flashing signal planned for Herschel and Pinegrove
If the sound of a Ford F159 truck t-boning a Jeep Cherokee Laredo early on a Saturday morning on Herschel Street wasn’t enough to bring residents running from nearby homes, the additional sound of the Jeep careening off a parked car and flipping upside down was a guaranteed wake-up call. Accidents and near misses are […]
Quarter-century wait for culvert replacement
Although the wheels turn slowly in city government, eventually they do make forward progress. When the year ends, it will also close on the 24th year residents have been waiting for replacement of an arched culvert on Herschel Street that crosses Azalea Creek, also known as Little Fishweir Creek. A CARE [Citizen Active Response […]
Petition drive underway to spur action on Willow Branch Creek
Tired of the lack of progress to complete the clean-up phase from a nearly three-year-old bridge project, residents living near Willow Branch Creek have started a petition, which has garnered responses from concerned citizens outside of Riverside/Avondale. Judging from the 150 responses on Change.org as of press time, people from Atlantic Beach, Jacksonville Beach, […]
Jaguar mural finds new home
The mural, a downtown fixture since 1995, has been donated to FreshMinistries Since 1995, a jaguar mural by artists Jim Draper and Anne Banas has graced the windows of the building at the corner of Ocean and Main Streets. Now, the mural has a new home: FreshMinistries’ J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver […]
DIA stamps approval on major Southbank development
Healthy Town opens naming opportunity following announcement The vision of a San Marco-based development team to “create a place where you can live healthily,” is a large step closer to becoming a reality. On August 26, the Downtown Investment Authority approved a resolution that clears the way for Elements Development of Jacksonville LLC, a partnership […]
