More diamonds for local boys of summer
Baseball League eyes more field If you live in the San Marco area or along Hendricks Avenue just south of Emerson Street, you may hear the sound of people cheering on a nice clear spring evening when the traffic noise drops for a moment. Where is that happy sound coming from? Most likely from the […]
Jean and Helen Benjamin
When Helen Benjamin, 80, first heard about property her father-in-law planned to buy and develop, it didn’t sound great. L. Walter Benjamin, Sr. took his two sons, L. Walter Jr. (deceased) and her husband Jean to see woodlands off San Jose Boulevard just south of San Clerc Road. The Beauclerc Country Club and golf course […]
Patti Golden
Patricia Kirkpatrick Golden, 76, was lovingly raised by her maternal grandmother Annie Meredith at 2743 College Street, a two-story home near the intersection with King Street. They had moved to Jacksonville from Macon, GA in 1953 when her grandfather died, because Annie always wanted to live in the “big city” of Jacksonville and she had […]
Give Blood: Impact Five Lives and a Dream Come True
As of today, 3/25, The Blood Alliance’s supply remains extremely low. “We are in need of O-Negative, O-Positive, A-Negative, A-Positive, B-Negative and B-Positive donors. Only in March can your one pint impact FIVE lives through the final week and days of our Dreams Come True promotion. As blood cannot be manufactured or harvested we are […]
UNF Poll Finds Uncertainty and Indecision as March Election Looms
From the Department of Public Relations, University of North Florida: A new poll from the Public Opinion Research Laboratory at the University of North Florida reveals registered voters on the First Coast are indecisive as the March election draws near. The poll, which interviewed likely voters in Duval County, revealed that Alvin Brown is leading […]
Volunteers Brave Cold to Support Park
First Time a Charm for Cleanup Effort Despite starting temperatures in the 30s, over 60 volunteers turned out to give Boone Park South (the portion between Herschel Street and St. John’s Avenue) its first good cleaning and clearing in many years on Love Boone Park Day, Feb. 14. “We really had a successful day,” said […]
From the heart of Riverside, a water spirit emerges
For more than two decades, artist and Florida Master Naturalist Sarah Crooks Flaire’s work has orbited the themes of the natural world. Exploring themes of the river, its surrounding ecology, and our interactions with nature, Crooks Flaire’s current project strives to draw the viewer in to become part of the creative process, introducing people to […]
Dr. Linda Fisher
Teaching is in her blood. Dr. Linda McLucas Fisher, now 72, was the only child of teachers Leonard and Margaret Cox McLucas. The family celebrated her first birthday in their new Murray Hill home on Attleboro Street after moving from Sanford, FL with Fisher’s maternal grandmother Maud Medill Miller. Her father was a new coach […]
