District 3 School Board runoff: Jenkins vs. Smith Juarez
Despite low voter turnout, competition narrows for local candidates – By Susanna P. Barton – Resident Community News – The August 14 primary elections yielded a runoff between two candidates for the District 3 School Board seat — former city councilwoman and Englewood activist Suzanne Jenkins and Ashley Smith Juarez, a five-year Bolles School educator […]
Voices carry– Talk of Publix-anchored development rekindled
By Susanna P. Barton – Resident Community News – The whispers began last month — several residents indicated that St. Joe Co. and Regency Centers might be taking another look at the long stagnant East San Marco mixed-use development at Atlantic and Hendricks boulevards. And of course, anything that includes new word of the long-awaited […]
bb’s rooftop garden a culinary delight
The rooftop at bb’s restaurant in San Marco is a hotbed of freshness. Literally. In the growing heat of May, bb’s executive chef Joshua Agan started a raised-bed garden on the flat roof of the restaurant. Chris Bredenhoeft helped install the bed frames and bring up the organic soil, compost and worm casings. Agan and […]
‘Tis the season for college football
By William Milne – Welcome back to the most wonderful time of the year! As we embrace the much-anticipated 2012 football season, there is no argument that college football is advancing through a significant transition! The competition to be the #1 team has never been more intense; athletes are now being recruited as early as […]
Fostering community: Performers Academy cultivates FSS talent
he Performers Academy, based in St. Nicholas, hosted 15 foster children from neighbor organization, Family Support Services, for a three-week Cultural Arts Camp. The program included individualized programs for the teenage students — and helped the 16- and 17-year-olds express their own experiences through dance and music. Each camper worked with a professional artist, dancer, […]
Labor Day: Neighborhood a historic job center
By Susanna P. Barton – Resident Community News – September is time to celebrate fall and get back into summer mode with the long Labor Day weekend. On the first Monday of September, residents show their appreciation for their jobs and life’s daily grind by stepping away from them — perhaps with a getaway […]
Eat. Critique. Repeat.
Get your blue on at The Blue Fish in Avondale Contrary to popular diet beliefs, food and the color blue do mix, especially at The Blue Fish Restaurant and Oyster Bar at 3551 Saint Johns Avenue in Avondale. A quartet of diners put it to the test on a Sunday evening and gave high marks […]
St. Vincent’s expects first transcatheter aortic valve replacement this fall
St. Vincent’s Medical Center Riverside has been selected by Edwards Lifesciences to be the first hospital in the region to offer patients transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) therapy. There are only 13 other hospitals in the state of Florida offering this life-saving technology. The neighborhood hospital anticipates performing its first TAVR procedure in September, according […]
