Forgotten treasures fund healthier lives
Who would have thought after paying decades worth of storage fees, so many treasures from one of Florida’s wealthiest families would surface and eventually benefit the foundations they created to help those in need? The Jacksonville-based Alfred I. duPont Foundation had been paying storage bills for a unit in Tallahassee, but it wasn’t until […]
Avondale river access beginning to look like a park
Six months after hundreds of residents in Avondale became riled about, then embroiled in, the threat of losing city-owned property to private citizens, the issue seems to have come to an agreeable resolution. Shortly after legislation proposed to close a 60- by 435-foot right-of-way from Richmond Street to the St. Johns River was withdrawn in […]
Mayo, St. Vincent’s cancer collaboration not the first
New plan brings Mayo Clinic programs to Riverside When Mayo Clinic and St. Vincent’s HealthCare announced early in October a collaboration to bring Mayo Clinic’s nationally ranked cancer services to patients in a newly built medical suite on the campus of St. Vincent’s Riverside, it was not the first time the two health care giants […]
Arts center celebrates 10 years serving community’s children
Residents with long memories will recall A Little Walk Through the Woods, a locally written and produced play with a new twist on an old theme. Ten years ago, Little Red Riding Hood took a brave journey to raise funds for a new community program. The play, written by Jeff Hess and starring his wife […]
Hogans Creek, Confederate Park cleanup a daunting task
Groundwork Jacksonville engages youth for revitalization Although Confederate Park was the first Jacksonville city park to include a playground, it’s not a place where children can enjoy the outdoors today. Situated along Hogans Creek, the park desperately needs tender loving care. When garbage was used to fill in Hogans Creek’s marsh areas in preparation for […]
TPO plan offers solutions for safer roads
Consultants rode every route for study Members of the city’s Bicycle-Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) had only one day to provide consultants hired by the North Florida Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) with feedback after hearing the results of a study of inexpensive solutions to make Jacksonville a safer city for walkers and cyclists. The meeting was […]
Merchants, JSO discuss safety measures in Park and King corridor
Three weeks after the murder of Daniel Rowe, a busboy at the Blind Rabbit restaurant on King Street, area merchants had the chance to sit down with eight members of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and discuss crime in the Park and King retail corridor, as well as the measures being taken by the JSO to […]
Chicken ordinance may have been passed in haste
Avondale man in three-year battle over loose chickens Three months after the Jacksonville City Council passed an ordinance expanding a backyard hen pilot program, the City now finds itself moving quickly to establish a protocol for dealing with residents’ complaints about nuisance chickens and roosters. In July, The Resident reported on the Jacksonville City Council’s […]
