It’s official… USS Orleck opens to the public
The USS Orleck DD-86 is now officially open to the public. “…We have been working 12 years for this day, for this moment,” said Jacksonville Naval Museum President Daniel Bean at the opening ceremony on Friday, Sept. 23. “I would like to just say that dreams do come true.” Bob Orleck, nephew to the ship’s […]
Local Folks: Evan Tucker
Evan Tucker is a Lakeshore man who works throughout Jacksonville as a tangible asset manager of estate properties, boats, and airplanes. In fact, he’s an aviation expert, serving as a private pilot and an aircraft mechanic. He is also co-founder of the nonprofit Cowford Conservation, which represents sportsmen in the Jacksonville area. The mission is […]
Animal House: Transportation Security Administration Canines & Officers
Detecting Explosives to Protect People & Transport The canine and officer explosives detection teams that graduate from the Transportation Security Administration’s $12 million Canine Training Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas protects people and transportation hubs by detecting and locating explosives. Among those graduates are Jacksonville’s TSA-trained bomb-sniffing canines and the officers who […]
West Riverside Elementary School Brings Its “A” Game
West Riverside Elementary School (WRES), Florida’s oldest operating elementary school, entered this 2022-2023 school year as an A-rated school. Located in the heart of the historic district, on Herschel Street, WRES is a Dual Language Magnet School with a neighborhood general education tract. Talya Taylor, the school principal, asserted that the factors that led to […]
The Way We Were: Connie Toney Andry
Connie Toney Andry was born on May 1, 1952, the fourth in line of six. “Two boys, two girls, two boys,” she said. Her paternal grandparents, Tom and Mary Toney, had owned several commercial and residential properties along San Marco Boulevard. Her family lived in one of the apartments above Gene’s Barbershop that is now […]
Jordan joins Baptist Health’s Familial Brain Aneurysm Study to help others, ends up saving her own life
Threat discovered during state-funded research screening to assess the hereditary probability of brain aneurysms in families. Pamela Jordan, 61, wasn’t having any symptoms, exercised three days a week and lived a healthy lifestyle; but, because of her family history of aneurysm and stroke, she agreed to participate in Baptist Health’s Familial Brain Aneurysm Study. Backed […]
Groundbreaking ceremony held for One Riverside
One Riverside, a much-anticipated mixed-use development at the Northbank’s 1 Riverside Avenue, celebrated its groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 22. Demolition of the Florida Times-Union building that once claimed that address began in May of this year and focus has shifted from what was to what will be. Katherine Mosley, a partner with Atlanta-based developer […]
Pedestrian safety for students a topic of concern
Growth brings more traffic and distracted drivers When the new school year began, San Marco resident Dale Farrow walked with his sixth grader to make sure he and his friend knew how to approach crossing the busy streets, particular Atlantic Boulevard, to get to Landon Middle School. He did that for three weeks and spoke […]
